19 Best fiction books like Scende giù per Toledo by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

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Scende giù per Toledo

By: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

4.21

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In questo romanzo breve, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi ha narrato la ricerca più difficile: quella dell'A…

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1. The Little Virtues

By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more

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"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

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2. The Chronology of Water

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more

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"my parents Oedipal fakers"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"...what is a couple over time but a line..."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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3. Der Richter und sein Henker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

«Dicevi che è da stupidi compiere un delitto, perché non è possibile muovere gli uomini come figure… read more

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4. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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5. The Nao of Brown

By: Glyn Dillon

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who's hafu(half Japanese, half English), is not well. She's suffer… read more

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Cover of Il suono del mondo a memoria by None

6. Il suono del mondo a memoria

By: None

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Se guardi e non riesci a vedere, forse il problema e che in realta non stai ascoltando te stesso.Su… read more

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Cover of Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Dovid Bergelson

7. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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8. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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Cover of Il giorno della civetta by Leonardo Sciascia

9. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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10. Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile

By: Peter Cameron , Giuseppina Oneto

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

James ha 18 anni e vive a New York. Finita la scuola, lavoricchia nella galleria d'arte della madre… read more

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11. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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12. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara

By: Giorgio Bassani

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more

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13. Camere separate

By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"'Camere separate' e uno straordinario e felice romanzo d'amore e di morte, di nostalgia e maturita… read more

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14. Altri libertini

By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli

3.22

Format: 224 pages,

Altri libertini ha avuto fin dagli inizi una vita avventurosa: pubblicato nel 1980, sequestrato per… read more

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15. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more

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16. L'amico ritrovato

By: Arthur Koestler , None , Fred Uhlman

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found . Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclu… read more

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17. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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18. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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19. Giù nella valle

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more

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20. A Frozen Woman

By: Annie Ernaux

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more

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"Old equals plain equals lonely."

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

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21. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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Cover of Une belle vie by Virginie Grimaldi

22. Une belle vie

By: Virginie Grimaldi

4.21

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Emma et Agathe Delorme sont sœurs. Elles ont grandi l'une contre l'autre, mais sont pourtant très d… read more

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Cover of Il fuoco che ti porti dentro by Antonio Franchini

23. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

By: Antonio Franchini

3.90

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more

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"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

"Conosco la rabbia che nasce dal senso di inferiorità, dall'inadeguatezza. Qualche volta sono stato preso da quella stessa frenesia, ho provato il desiderio di sfregiare con le parole coloro ai quali …"

-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro

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24. Il colibrì

By: Sandro Veronesi

3.85

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Marco Carrera, il protagonista del nuovo romanzo di Sandro Veronesi, è il colibrì. La sua è una vit… read more

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25. Daddy Issues

By: Katherine Angel

3.38

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A personal essay on the entanglement of fathers and feminism. Contemporary feminism has re-embraced… read more

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26. Marabbecca

By: Viola Di Grado

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Un pomeriggio di fine estate Clotilde e Igor, dopo essersi lasciati, hanno un incidente d’auto. Lei… read more

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Cover of Ragazzo italiano (Italian Edition) by Gian Arturo Ferrari

27. Ragazzo italiano (Italian Edition)

By: Gian Arturo Ferrari

3.18

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

La vita di Ninni, figlio del dopoguerra, attraversa le durezze da prima rivoluzione industriale del… read more

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Cover of L'animale che mi porto dentro by Francesco Piccolo

28. L'animale che mi porto dentro

By: Francesco Piccolo

3.31

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

«Quello che tenevo compresso dentro di me, nell'ora di educazione fisica o durante i film di Macist… read more

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Cover of Giovanissimi by Alessio Forgione

29. Giovanissimi

By: Alessio Forgione

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Marocco ha quattordici anni e vive con il padre a Soccavo, un quartiere di Napoli. La madre li ha a… read more

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30. Del sesso

By: Jean-Luc Nancy

4.20

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

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31. Scende giù per Toledo

By: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

4.21

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In questo romanzo breve, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi ha narrato la ricerca più difficile: quella dell'A… read more

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22 Top fiction books like Il fuoco che ti porti dentro by Antonio Franchini

Transform Your Habits

Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

Transform Your Habits

I giorni di Vetro

Nicoletta Verna

4.57

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Cose che non si raccontano

Antonella Lattanzi

4.22

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