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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, this rich, intense, and generous-hearted story gives a meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.

The author of "The Days of Abandonment" pens her most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet.

A contemporary classic Italian novel, first published in 1955, from film director, poet, writer and political thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, who died in 1975. Translated by Ann Goldstein. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes*

Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family.

Named Book of the Year by Elle magazine, this "Italian love story [is] destined to become a classic" (The Gazette).Eva, a forty-year-old public relations professional living in Northern Italy, receives an unexpected message from Southern Italy. Vito, a man she briefly knew as a child as a friend of her mother's, is very ill and would like to see her one last time. He is a retired police officer who was stationed in the north during the late si...

An author's journey told through letters, interviews, and occasional writings. A unique collection in which reclusive Italian writer addresses subjects such as her choice to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, politics and culture and the role of the writer in modern society.

The 4th and final book in the highly biographical "Neapolitan Novels" series, which chart the lives of 2 female friends, Elena and Lila. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, they are internationally renowned bestsellers. 'Nothing quite like this has ever been published before.' "The Guardian

Two lost young Parisians discover new paths for their lives in this charming pair of novellas by the international-bestselling author of Billie.Twenty-four-year-old Mathilde has abandoned her studies in art history for a job leaving anonymous negative comments on websites. One day she loses her bag in a café-a bag that happens to contain ten thousand Euros. When an unknown man returns it to her a week later, Mathilde becomes obsessed with the ...

Returns to the tale at the centre of the novel "The Lost Daughter", but this time the story takes the form of a children's fable told from the point of the view of the lost doll, Celina.

A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a "formidable and hard-to-forget heroine" (Publishers Weekly).In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will wa...

An erotically charged adult fable from the bestselling Italian author of "Silk" and "Ocean Sea". Translated by Ann Goldstein, it follows a woman's ingress into a fantastically strange family.

A family saga and history of an entire region, this is a suspenseful novel that paints a portrait of the moral and political corruption of a whole society and addresses vital social questions. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Thirteen-year-old albino named Luna lives on the coast of Tuscany. When her beloved bother Luca drowns in a surfing accident, her mother retreats into herself. At school, Luna makes a new friend, the eccentric Zot, a boy from Chernobyl. Luna's fantasies clash with the lies of the adult world in this touching, vibrant novel. Luna is vivid, imaginative, and determined to become her own person.

A novel about marriage, family and the consequences of one's actions, translated from Italian by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. Will appeal to fans of Elena Ferrante and Ian McEwan.

A love triangle involving Mikhail Bulgakov, famed author of The Master and Margarita, an agent of Stalin's secret police, and the bewitching Margarita has inescapable consequences for all three in 1930s Russia. It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police...

A psychological thriller set during the Bosnian War, from one of the founders of Medecins Sans Frontieres and former Ambassador of France in Senegal. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

Originally published in 1981, this is at once a charming romance and a superb spy story that was described by Graham Greene as 'his best book of the year'.

It's the middle of a long, hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and everyone is enjoying themselves while the sunshine lasts. But when a Dutch woman is brutally murdered out of the blue and another disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city, the Perpignan police headquarters have a puzzling mystery to solve...

After a brilliant career as a trader, Jacques Coeur was summoned to the court of Charles VII and appointed Master of the Mint in 1436. He rose to become the King of France's visionary First Banker who, with his tours of the Far East, his opposition to the crusades, and his efforts to develop trade, brought France out of the darkness toward the Renaissance and modernity. At the height of his success, his ill-considered infatuation with Agnès So...

Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution, The Last Banquet is an intimate epic that tells the story of one man's quest to know the world through its many and marvelous flavors. Jean-Marie d'Aumout will try anything once, with consequences that are at times mouthwatering and at others fascinatingly macabre (Three Snake Bouillabaisse anyone? Or perhaps some pickled Wolf's He...