Author: Luisella Mazza Publisher: Fazi Release date: 18-07-2023 Bum Bum Bum Oscar is an Argentine tango teacher who, when his partner leaves him for a Caribbean dancing instructor, simultaneously loses his job and the most important relationship of his life. It’s at that point that he starts being haunted by a mysterious inner voice − the…
Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 19-06-2023 Beato lui It is impossible to put an end to Berlusconi’s novel. It is not punctuated by chapters or events that follow a temporal logic, the characters appear elusive, the periods are full of incisors and subordinates, the notes in the margins constantly evolving. An editor’s work…
Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 06-06-2023 Oro puro Palos, Spain, August 1492. Nuño is 16 years old, and he is a crab. Or at least that is the nickname given him by his mother, who died a few years earlier, and of whom Nuño retains a memory that is both pain and light.…
Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 06-06-2023 Elp A woman beaten by her husband, domestic violence denied by the victim, the script that too often precedes a murder. Instead, the body that is found in the woods is that of her husband, Roberto Novailloz, a blow to the head and bruising to the face;…
Author: Gianni Solla Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 30-05-2023 Il ladro di quaderni Tora and Piccilli (north of Caserta), September 1942. Davide spends his days, sometimes even the night, with the pigs he guards: he knows them so well that he calls them by name. He limps from birth, and for this he is laughed at…
Author: Valeria Provenzano Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 23-05-2023 Le mille strade per Buenos Aires San Juan. “You are big now. You’re strong and you’re not afraid of anything.” These are the last words 12-year-old Rosario hears from her mother before she gets into a car that takes her forever away from home. Arriving at the…
Author: Daniela Raimondi Publisher: Casa Editrice Nord Release date: 23-05-2023 Il primo sole dell’estate It’s a cold home, the one in which Norma grows up, where parents do not divorce for the sake of quiet life and hugs can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps that’s why, when Norma is away from…
Author: Cinzia Leone Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 23-05-2023 Vieni tu, giorno, nella notte A suicide bomber detonates himself at a club in Tel Aviv. A young man dies in the massacre; his name is Ariel Anav, he is Italian and wears the uniform of the Israeli Army. Upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, the parents,…
Author: Erri De Luca Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 16-05-2023 Le regole dello Shangai She is a young gypsy woman escaping from her family to avoid an arranged marriage to an older man, he is a watchmaker who is camping on the border and welcomes her into his tent. The meeting inaugurates an understanding made up…
Author: Andrea Marcolongo Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 16-05-2023 Spostare la luna dall’orbita In the last week of May, in a Paris store specializing in mountain items, Andrea Marcolongo bought a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. The next evening she opened the camp bed and spread out the sleeping bag not on top…