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An aging singer abandons Italy for South America as he struggles with the loss of his stardom, in a Strega Prize-nominated novel by the famed filmmaker.Born on the streets and born singing, Tony Pagoda has had his day. But what a day it was! He had fame, money, women, and talent. He spent his golden years entertaining a flourishing and garishly happy Italy. His success stretched over borders and across the seas. But somewhere things began to g...

A story about the things we're willing to die for, and to kill for.

A novel about overcoming adversity, making human connections, and football. From a debut French author, journalist, screenwriter and comic book author. Translated by Howard Curtis.

A fun and farcical novel, this new "whodunit" about life in multicultural Italy by Amara Lakhous will delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Prank is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. Lakhous draws in...

In pristine, elegant prose, " the Costa Prize-winning author "creates an indelible portrait of a mysterious woman" and her quest for total independence (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Maud enters Tim's life as no one else could: by falling straight past him, seemingly to her death, then standing up and walking away. From that moment on, Tim is desperate to love her, rescue her, reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of h...

Translation of: Die sch'arfsten Gerichte der tatarischen K'uche.

From the author of The Whole Wide Beauty: "Transcendent. What unfolds is a story not just of young love but of how to cope when it is lost and shattered" (Financial Times).United Kingdom circa the 1980s-Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. The future looks bleak if they do not change their lives dramatically. Both are itching to escape their current lives and engage with the wider world.Ursula's wo...

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An "enthralling" novel of growing up amid the terrors of World War II that offers "a superb lesson in resilience and the importance of imagination" (La Presse).Julek has assumed countless identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in an orphanage (despite having two mothers) and he knows how to speak the language of dogs. All this at the tender age of fourteen!Julek's story begins i...

Dangerous, edgy noir crime fiction at its absolute finest and certain to be one of my books of the year" featuring PI Marco "The Alligator" Burrati (reviewingtheevidence.com).A woman has gone missing. Her husband, too ashamed to admit to the police that he and his wife were part of a ring of sexual adventurers that organized sadomasochistic orgies, turns instead to the Alligator. Marco Burrati enters a depraved demiworld where ferocious deviat...

Giorgio Pellegrini, the hero of "The Goodbye Kiss, " has been living an "honest" life for 11 years. But that's about to change. His lawyer has been deceiving him and now Giorgio is forced into service as an unwilling errand boy for an organized crime syndicate.

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A historical novel based on the true story of the life of Jacques Coeur, who became the King of France's visionary First Banker in the 15th century. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

In Victorian Cornwall, a doctor risks her marriage to fight for female asylum patients: "One of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction " (The Times, London).Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize for Historical Fiction>Horrified by the brutal attitudes of male doctors and nurses toward their female patients, Ally plunges into the institutional politics of women's mental health at a time when madness is only just being imagined as treat...

Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her 60-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. She thus decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching is more challenging that she thought. But they begin to understand one other as never before.

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A narrative voice that is cold, heartless, but, in a creepy way, fascinating."-The New York Times A riveting drama of guilt, revenge, and justice, Massimo Carlotto's Death's Dark Abyss tells the story of two men and the savage crime that binds them. During a robbery, Raffaello Beggiato takes a young woman and her child hostage and later murders them. Beggiato is arrested, tried, and sentenced to life. The victims' father and husband, Silvano,...

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Julek has assumed countless different identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in an orphanage (despite having two mothers) and he knows how to speak the language of dogs. All this at the tender age of fourteen! Julek's story begins in Warsaw on the eve of World War II and ends in Paris after the city's triumphant liberation. We witness the darkest hours of the past century and th...