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…

Author: Antonio Pascale Publisher: Marsilio Release date: 09-05-2023 L’altra scommessa Pascal’s wager, whose 400th anniversary of his birth falls in June 2023, was about God. Man is a tragic being, without hope, argued the pessimist Pascal, so it is better to bet on the existence of God: nothing is lost and everything is gained. Antonio…

Author: Alessandro Mari Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 09-05-2023 Qualcosa resta Pedro has a suspicion, a hope, perhaps a faith: he believes his dog Lobo is capable of sniffing out death. And with a talent like that, he thinks, one could really prevent people we love from dying. From dying too soon, at least. Instead, it…

Author: Stefano Nazzi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 09-05-2023 Il volto del male “Why did he or she do it?” We often ask this question in the face of particularly vicious crimes, especially when they are unmotivated and therefore seem even more incomprehensible to us. Our instinct leads us to believe that the evil is the…

Autrice: Ersilia Vaudo Casa editrice: Einaudi Data di pubblicazione: 18-04-2023 Mirabilis The hand that drops the apple from a tree is the same hand that moves celestial gears: gravity. This of Newton is one of the great insights that changed the way we read the universe. Then came others. Two hundred years later, Einstein introduced…

Author: Paolo Lanzotti Publisher: TRE60 Release date: 14-04-2023 Le carte segrete della Serenissima Venice, June 1753. On the evening of his birthday, after a few too many drinks, Dr. Augusto Florian, a former doctor in the service of the Inquisition, finds the body of a dying man and catches a glimpse of his killer on…

Author: Eleonora Mazzoni Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 11-04-2023 Il cuore è un guazzabuglio. Vita e capolavoro del rivoluzionario Manzoni Il Manzoni, always called with the article preceding his last name, whom we imagine as students is a perpetually middle-aged man with a grave and somewhat absent gaze, similar to the one portrayed by Francesco Hayez…

Autrice: Beatrice Salvioni Casa editrice: Einaudi Stile Libero Data di pubblicazione: 21-03-2023 La malnata Only the strength of an unbreakable friendship can drive two young girls to rebel against injustice. Especially in the conformity of Fascist Italy. A marginalized teenager and a peer who learns to really know her, beyond prejudice. And who, thanks to…

Author: Chiara Fina Publisher: Guanda Release date: 11-04-2023 L’estate brucia ancora Carlotta is a 13-year-old girl like any other, a normal family, a normal house overlooking the bitter fields of Salento. Emma is a little older and her biography is at opposites: half-Irish origins, musician parents, a psychedelic villa with no rules. Theirs is a…

Author: Davide Enia Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 11-04-2023 Così in terra Davidù grew up in Palermo in a family of boxers, cared for by his mother Zina, grandmother Provvidenza, grandfather Rosario, and uncle Umbertino. His father, who died before he was born, was known as il Paladino, a spectacle in the ring, elegant, composed, precise,…

Author: Monica Acito Publisher: Bompiani Release date: 22-02-2023 Uvaspina A birthmark under the left eye, as dark as a ripe grape embedded in the skin very clear: he was born that way, Uvaspina, so much so that he soon got used to being called by that name that identifies him with his spot. Uvaspina can…

Author: Paolo Nori Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 21-02-2023 Vi avverto che vivo per l’ultima volta. Noi e Anna Achmatova “And we, what are we becoming? And me, what have I become?” wonders Paolo Nori. And the answer comes from a distance that in truth burns distances and carries with it, like a whirlwind of visions,…

Author: Francesco Piccolo Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 21-02-2023 La bella confusione Film history is not so different from life: seemingly linear, but studded with chance encounters, chased or missed appointments, last-minute decisions and unpredictable coincidences. Crucial fatalities that allow a work to come to light, with the precise characteristics that everyone will later remember. The…

Author: Fabiano Massimi Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 24-01-2023 Se esiste un perdono The forgotten story of the British Schindler. A highly successful author throughout Europe. Winner of the Prix Polar 2022 They call her the Salt Child, because every evening, when darkness floods the city, you can meet her at the mouth of an alleyway…

Author: Ritanna Armeni Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 10-01-2022 Il secondo piano Ritanna Armeni, with her usual rigorous and profound enthusiasm, traverses a crucial passage in our History and gives substance to an exemplary story about courage and sisterhood, strength and creativity, joy, fear, and resistance. In a suburban Franciscan convent, amidst the scents…

Authors: AA.VV. Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 29-09-2022 I figli che non voglio A roundup of unorthodox interventions, full of intelligence and critical sense, an essential vademecum for anyone interested in the topic. A discussion that provides us with excellent tools to “stop thinking that demographic winter is a moral or economic issue: it is, instead,…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 15-09-2022 L’isola nuova. Trent’anni di scritture di Sicilia An author’s anthology of recent Sicilian fiction. More than fifty entries, chosen by Gaetano Savatteri who, with his introductory notes, takes the reader on a thirty-year journey. For decades Sicily has been a metaphor for Italy and the world, a…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 15-11-2022 La luce delle stelle morte. Saggio su lutto e nostalgia At the heart of this book is the relationship of human life to the traumatic experience of loss. What happens inside us when we lose those we have deeply loved? What emptiness opens wide? What work awaits…

Authors: AA.VV.. Publisher: Solferino Release date: 8-11-2022 Data di nascita “We are born every day, every time we find another piece of us, every time we discover ourselves different.” We come into the world blind. In the sense of unaware: exposed to a bombardment of experiences, unaware of who we are, uncertain of the blurred…

Author: Ugo Cornia Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 28-10-2022 Sulla felicità a oltranza An engaging story in which anyone can recognize themselves. 1993, 1995, 1996 are the years that mark Hugh’s life. The times when his aunt, mother and father, the core of his affections and the foundation on which his world as…

Author: Giosuè Calaciura Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 25-10-2022 Una notte Around a stable in the Bethlehem countryside the stories and characters of those who set out one night in the dead of winter in fascination at the prophecy of a child’s birth, heralded by miraculous and bizarre events, chase and multiply. It is the night…

Author: Fabio Stassi Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 14-02-2023 Notturno francese A novel where the melancholy of constantly leaving behind things and people, in time and space, dominates. But also the thoughtlessness of setting out to find them. Or to be found. Vince Corso, bibliotherapist and literary puzzle detective, on the train that is supposed to…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 7-10-2022 Fumo sulla città Alessandro Leogrande, rather than providing answers, tries to recount the many shards that generated the most serious ecological and industrial crisis in Italy’s memory, giving us one of his most intense reportages. Taranto is often at the center of the national news, a profound…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 27-09-2022 La malaerba Antonio Manzini’s new novel, blackest and meanest Italy, evil as the only chance for redemption. In Samantha’s small bedroom, a poster of a wolf woman, “long hair, yellow eyes, a body to take your breath away, claws instead of nails,” a woman who does not…

Author: Leonardo Colombati Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 20-09-2022 Sinceramente non tuo When did Antonello Durante start to sink in? With that sly, crumpled air, he always had the physique du rôle of the rock photographer whose shots, according to one authoritative judgment, “changed the way we look at a concert.” Too bad that for several…

Author: Andrej Longo Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 13-09-2022 Mille giorni che non vieni Erasing the past, starting from scratch after changing oneself. But is there really such a thing as a second chance? A portrait of a character chasing himself through a labyrinth from which it is possible to get out, only to find himself…

Author: Davide Cossu Publisher: Newton Compton Release date: 10-01-2023 Il quinto sigillo A great historical thriller. Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, is bathed in blood “A great debut. Cossu’s writing sinks darkly and seductively into the roots of History.” – Marcello Simoni, author of Merchant of Cursed Books “A breathtakingly paced and sweeping historical…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 30-08-2022 La costanza è un’eccezione From the creator of The Pupil a new, sweeping adventure for Costanza Macallè and a mystery to solve dating back to late 17th-century Venice. “Alessia Gazzola reconfirms herself adept at keeping up with the times, light but never banal or cloying, always ironic…

Authors: AA.VV Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 12-07-2022 Una notte in giallo Crime and intrigue to be solved in the dark of night, eight stories blacker than ever. The night when everything happens-a crime, the enigma and the detective who unravels it-is a typical noir situation. In these eight stories, the deforming mirror of the night…

Author: Valerio Principessa Publisher: Feltrinelli Release Date: 26-05-2022 La casa del tè “I think that after the passing of an unhappy love, or after a breathtaking blow, one should simply get up and be proud of his scars. The wound becomes a medal of courage, our way of shouting to the world that we have…

Author: Giosué Calaciura Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 12-05-2022 Malacarne Malacarne was first published twenty-five years ago, and remains, to this day, a fulminating novel. With the cold lucidity of an X-ray examination it traverses recognizable stories, familiar characters, to reveal the swollen, diseased body of our societies. The symptoms seem changed but the pathology is…

Author: Pietro Del Solda Publisher: Marsilio Release date: 05-05-2022 La vita fuori di sé Who has never had the sudden resurfacing in memory of the trip that swept away many certainties, that erotic encounter so intense that true pleasure was discovered, or the unexpected and disconcerting effect of a book, a painting, a melody that…

Author: Simone Regazzoni Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 05-05-2022 Oceano The ecological crisis affecting our planet is a cosmological crisis that forces us today to rethink the very idea of planet and life beyond the human-sized cultural construct we have called “planet Earth.” To do this requires a new philosophy of nature that looks…

Author: Andrea Marcolongo e Andrea Ucini Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 05-05-2022 Il viaggio delle parole Every word in our language is a journey: discovering its origins and ancient roots means understanding the present and the way we express ourselves, thus paving the way for our future, which is always being built through our words. Who…

Author: Andrea Marcolongo Publisher: Laterza Release date: 7-04-2022 De arte gymnastica What if we tried for once to ‘run like the Greeks ran’? Running lovers or not, one thing is certain. Everything has changed from the time of Pheidippides to today – technology, politics, science, warfare, the way we write, eat, travel, even the climate…

Author: Lucio Pellegrini Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 24-03-2022 La linea Success. This is the north star that orients the lives of Stelio and Angiòla, who are more than a couple and perhaps even a family. He is a visionary architect, she his perfect complement. They are megalomaniacs, fragile and always poised. At…

Author: Fabiano Massimi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 1-03-2022 Vivi nascosto Night is about to give way to yet another hot day in the Emilian summer when Bruno Muta, a former enfant prodige of fashion, is found brutally murdered in the garage of his home. The fashion designer, not long out of prison after a conviction…

Author: Paolo Lanzotti Publisher: Tre60 Release date: 3-02-2022 Le ragioni dell’ombra “History, with Paolo Lanzotti, becomes an elegant mosaic full of mystery.” Marcello Simoni Venice, 1753. In a frosty spring, a series of murders and disappearances strikes important members of the Venetian nobility. The affair immediately takes on the contours of a grand international plot…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 13-01-2022 Le ossa parlano A cold case for Deputy Superintendent Schiavone, who takes it not as the usual 10th-grade breakup, but with painful compassion, because this is perhaps his cruelest investigation. Antonio Manzini proceeds another chapter in his character’s great novel. A unique novel composed of multiple intricate…

Author Lorenzo Bozzi Publisher: Salani Release date: 04-10-2021 Mi sono distratto un attimo Lorenzo is easily-distracted, that much is beyond doubt. No end of acronyms are used to label him; ADHD, SEN… He has a collection of certificates that even the doctors who gave them to him struggle to keep track of. He has run…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 28-10-2021 Sono cose che passano After World War II, the baron of dubious nobility Rodolfo Polizzi married Ottavia princess of Bauci and took her with him to Leonforte, an inland town in Sicily. In that summer of 1951 where, not far away, on the island…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Laterza Release data: 22-10-2021 Le siciliane “When I arrived in Palermo to enroll in the university, I realized by my skin that Palermo was ‘fimmina.’ Not only because of the beauty of its girls with piratical looks, but also because of the presence at every corner of the historic center of…

Author: Fabio Stassi Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 14-09-2021 Mastro Geppetto A father in search of his son. A carpenter and his puppet. A little gem of creativity and literary inspiration. What if the adventures of Geppetto, the creator of Pinocchio, were entirely different from how we know them? What if alongside the vicissitudes of the…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 12-10-2021 La ragazza del collegio TEN YEARS SINCE THE FIRST NOVEL OF L’ALLIEVA THE BELOVED ALICE ALLEVI RETURNS Alice Allevi returns in all her splendid and perfect imperfection. Back comes Claudio Conforti, to everyone now just “CC”: brilliant mind, often caustic gab, heart only seemingly rough around the…

Author: Marco De Franchi Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 05-05-2022 La condanna dei viventi The child found in the night is hiding something. Fosco claims he was kidnapped but managed to escape, running through the Tuscan countryside. No one believes him, or maybe no one has really tried to listen to him. I have. And I…

Author: Ugo Cornia Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 07-10-2021 La vita in ordine alfabetico “For a long time, without ever writing a single line, I had this idea to make a kind of Dictionnaire raisonné of my life, also to see what ‘my life’ would come out of it. I was in the…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Rizzoli Lizard Release date: 05-10-2021 Periferica. Storie ai margini Reality is Squinting, Tram Tram Rock, Accidents and Other Unpublished Tales. Early works by a master of international comics. In this collection of stories created between 1974 and 1980, some of them in collaboration with scriptwriters Fabrizio Ostani (aka Jerry Kramsky) and…

Author: Pietro Galeotti Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 16-09-2021 La riunione A great television author recounts the craft behind the programs and schedules, the flops and peaks of Auditel. A wry and fierce memoir, populated with characters poised between enthusiasm and resignation: ‘We hold out as long as we can, we get paid so much per…

Author: Andrej Longo Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 16-09-2021 Solo la pioggia The new novel by one of the strongest voices in our literature in recent years. A short and furious drama, merciless and tense, which in precise movements and in a single space is capable of generating a deflagration. “It is impossible not to love…

Author: Andrej Longo Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 16-09-2021 Chi ha ucciso Sarah? The story of an investigation, a coming to grips, a path of discovery and rebellion leading to a surprise ending, Who Killed Sarah? is an exemplary novel of Andrej Longo’s work, a moral and psychological detective story, taut, disorienting, constantly stretched in a…

Author: Daniela Jurisic Publisher: Vallardi Release date: 09/09/2021 La tua salute su misura per curarsi anche da sani Why do some patients fail to feel well again after they have been treated? Is it just bad luck that we fall ill, or does what happens to our bodies have a meaning that we need to…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 27-1-2011 L’allieva Alice Allevi is a young forensic medicine resident. She still has a lot to learn and knows she is a bit absent-minded, often careless. But of one thing she is sure: she loves her job. Even if the institution where she does it is a veritable…

Author: Antonio Pascale Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 02-11-2021 La foglia di fico “Over the years I have come to think that whatever road one might take to happiness, it must necessarily pass through a pine forest. A pine forest to cross and a sea to reach.” There is in this book the invention of a…

Author: Santi Laganà Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 22-06-2021 Anno mille. L’inizio della fine A.D. 963. Rome experiences one of the most tragic moments in its never-ending history. Civil war looms among the streets and palaces in the anxious wait for Otto the Great to return and impose his law once and for all. The young,…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 10-06-2021 Vecchie conoscenze She died in her apartment Sofia Martinet, struck in the head with a heavy object. As Rocco Schiavone pursues a new investigation, some returns from the past emotionally shake the deputy detective, who almost catches himself repenting of his own tough exterior: perhaps because an…

Author: Marco Filoni Publisher: EINAUDI Release date: 25-05-2021 Il calcolo della paura We come from months in which fear has understandably dominated the horizon of every human emotion. Marco Filoni, tracing its history from Hobbes to the Dpcms, between motion of the soul and political control, draws an unexpected portrait of the “good use of…

Author: Lara Berettieri Publisher: Rizzoli Release date: 25-05-2021 Bircàbia Òrphin Bircàbia is a volcanic and unabashed 16-year-old girl who moved to Rome from her eccentric Aunt Diana to pursue her dream of becoming a theater actress. Together with her best friend Lùnia, a refined heiress of a noble Russian lineage, she attends the Centro Studi…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 18-05-2021 Il grido di Giobbe Job’s body and soul are torn by evil; “naked and shaven,” covered with sores, he falls into ashes. Prayer can only take the sharp form of a cry addressed to God, “why me? Why the injustice of all this pain?” The evil that…

Author: Eliana Liotta Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release data: 08-04-2021 Il cibo che ci salverà There is a food that is both kind to the body and kind to the planet. It is smart food, fit for the Anthropocene, the era in which we live and where humans are the ones influencing nature’s events.…

Author: Ritanna Armeni Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 06-05-2021 Per strada è la felicità Rosa is a good provincial girl who arrives in Rome in her twenties with the goal of graduating and finding a job. But we are on the eve of Sixty-eight and the ferment of revolt dwells everywhere: in the avenues…

Author: Marco Scardigli Publisher: Rizzoli Release date: 23-03-2021 Sibil She looks like any little girl. But her powers are limitless. Sibil appears to be no more than a young girl. She eats plain rice and she needs warmth and silence. But this is just the surface: in fact, Sibil has a mysterious past which endowed…

Author: Gianni Solla Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 02-03-2021 Tempesta madre “If you can write something, then it means you can understand it.” At St. Sophia Institute, Jacopo is the only boy in the class, and at eight years old his relationship with women is already complicated. Starting with his relationship with his mother, who makes…

Author: AA.VV Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 25-02-2021 Musa e getta Sixteen women writers for sixteen great women. In this astonishing collection, many of Italy’s most beloved and appreciated female writers recount as many “muses”: shameless and beautiful women or, on the contrary, meek and reserved ones who, for the space of a night…

Author: Cristina Frascà Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 09-09-2021 La supplente Anna is 30 years old and does not get one right. Perhaps that is why she has not yet realized her dream of teaching; or perhaps it is because the road to obtaining a tenure-track position-is long and winding. So when she finds out that…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 23-02-2021 Ritorno a Jean-Paul Sartre. Esistenza, infanzia e desiderio While few intellectuals have had such a decisive influence on twentieth-century culture as Jean-Paul Sartre, today the French philosopher, in a sort of revenge of indifference, appears to have been unduly marginalized by dominant thought. All the more critically…

Author: Giosuè Calaciura Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 04-02-2021 Io sono Gesù A very young wayfarer on a journey full of surprises, passions and betrayals, sweetness and violence. It is Calaciura’s Jesus. Structured almost like a feuilleton or a television series, punctuated with twists and turns, innervated by a constant tension, in his new novel the…

Author: Leonardo Colombati Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 02-02-2021 Scrivere per dire sì al mondo Reading is one of the most pleasurable solitary vices, capable of making us remember, imagine, and move with an intensity that disregards where you do it (in bed or on a train) and when; Italo Calvino argued that when you read,…

Autore: Lorenzo Mattotti Casa editrice: Logos Data di pubblicazione: 01-02-2021 Romeo & Giulietta At the tip of a pencil, Lorenzo Mattotti interprets the story of the two young people who for centuries have embodied the very essence of love, choosing not to recount its tragedy in order to imagine their gestures, lines and expressions and…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 05-11-2020 Il lusso della giovinezza Irreverent, passionate and irreverent return with a new adventure the two involuntary investigators, Saverio Lamanna, jobless journalist, sarcastic and realistic, and Peppe Piccionello, his sidekick, confidant and mentor. Between irony and sarcasm, a detective story loaded with social and human reflections. The old…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 01-10-2020 Critica della ragione psicoanalitica. Tre saggi su Elvio Fachinelli Elvio Fachinelli was a great Italian psychoanalyst, an intellectual out of the chorus and engaged in the life of the city, an incisive and brilliant writer. In this book Massimo Recalcati restores to us the strength…

Author: Valeria Usala Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 26-04-2021 La rinnegata Without a man beside her, a woman is nothing. Teresa always heard the echo of this phrase, like the wind in the storm, but she never believed it. She who is stillness and fire, anger and tenderness, has been struggling against prejudice since she was…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 12-10-2020 Costanza e buoni propositi Anything she would have thought, but not to be a paleopathologist after graduating from medical school. Not of living in Verona, so far from Messina, her home. Not of having a small child, the funny Flora. Not to track down the child’s father…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Releaase date: 22-10-2020 Gli ultimi giorni di quiete One ordinary morning, by chance, Nora recognizes a face on the train. It is the person who destroyed her life. She and her husband Pasquale are the owners in Pescara of a well-established tobacco shop. And it was in this one six…

Author: Barbara Frandino Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 15-09-2020 È quello che ti meriti A wounded and stubborn marriage is a perfect time bomb. It is a duel in which the heart and the head always have the same weight, and intelligence can even complicate things. What small and great cruelties can one inflict on oneself…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 06-05-2021 Il calamaro gigante Of the sea we know nothing, however, we delude ourselves to the contrary: we spend a day at the beach and think we are looking at the sea, instead we see only “its peel, its salty, shimmering skin.” Perhaps it is because just below…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 01-09-2020 Il gesto di Caino “Cain’s act is without mercy: he kills his brother by spilling his blood on the earth. It leaves no hope, does not allow for dialogue, does not retard the heinous violence of hatred. It is from this gesture that human history begins. We…

Author: Fabio Stassi Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 23-07-2020 Uccido chi voglio A new adventure with blacker hues than ever before for bibliotherapist Vince Corso, a conundrum that leads him to stray into the shadows and question the threatening and saving power of words. This story was born in a prison. An Albanian inmate revealed to…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 01-04-2021 Le male vite. Storie di contrabbando e di multinazionali The genesis, rise and decline of a business that seems to have disappeared but instead is still very active today: cigarette smuggling. Through what was once considered one of the most classic occupations of the underclass, Leogrande investigates…

Author: Paolo Lanzotti Publisher: TRE60 Release date: 28-01-2021 I guardiani della laguna Venice, 1753. During carnival Marco Leon, a secret agent of the State Inquisition, investigates a double murder that occurred in the Sant’Angelo theater during a performance of Goldoni’s Locandiera. The two victims, a young patrician and a company actor, are apparently unrelated. But…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Release date: 26-10-2020 Il signor Spartaco The protagonist of this poetic and hallucinatory graphic novel, evocatively named Spartaco, is a sort of early twentieth century futurist scientist, an elegant, calm and somewhat shy man who travels by train to visit his aunt. He soon falls asleep and begins to dream…

Author: Andrea Marcolongo Publisher: Laterza Release date: 24-09-2020 La lezione di Enea If in times of peace and prosperity we ask Homer to teach us about life, at every upheaval of History we should lay down the Iliad and Odyssey and hasten to take up the Aeneid again. Andrea Marcolongo lets us discover the true…

Author: Gabriella Greison Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 15-09-2020 Ucciderò il gatto di Schrödinger “When I first saw the drawing of the cat in the box I had just turned 14, I was in the eighth grade, it was 2006. Never did I think that this drawing would haunt me for the rest of my life.…

Author: Massimo Recalcati  Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 28.05.2020 La tentazione del muro Does a civilized lexicon still exist? At a time when borders have been transfigured into walls, hatred seems to destroy every possible form of dialogue, fear of the stranger dominates, fanaticism exalts fantasies of purity to erase the experience of difference and contamination,…

Author: Fabio Stassi Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo Release date: 04-06-2020 Vivere con i classici “Embalming the Greeks and Romans robbed them of their strength, that is, their conflicting modernity” (from Luciano Canfora’s Introduction). A reflection on how the role of the classics changes in everyday life through six captivating and thought-provoking stories signed by some…

Author: AA.VV Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 09-04-2020 Andrà tutto bene Today fear has a new name: Covid-19. To defeat it, the only way is to stay at home. Within the four walls that have always protected us and now, however, have become impassable boundaries. They have become almost an enemy. And instead, day after day,…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: PaperFIRST Release date: 27-02-2020 Salvini e/o Mussolini Are the League and its leader, Matteo Salvini, nothing less than the return of fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini? A part of public opinion is convinced that they are. In particular, the Left – which for the author represents the identifying core of…

Author: Ritanna Armeni Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie Release date: 13-02-2020 Mara. Una donna del novecento Mara was born in 1920 and was 13 years old when this story begins. She lives near largo di Torre Argentina. Her father is a shopkeeper, her mother a housewife. She has a best friend, Nadia, a staunch fascist, who…

Author: Ilaria Bernardini  Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 28-01-2020 Il ritratto Valeria Costas, a globally acclaimed and translated writer, has dedicated her life to her books and to her great love, the well-known entrepreneur Martín Aclà. She lives alone in Paris, while Martín lives in London with his wife and children-the two have been lovers for…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 14-01-2020 Cadrò, sognando di volare You know when the radio plays the song you always listened to in high school, and you imagined yourself in the future, free and happy to do whatever you wanted … well, if hearing it makes your heart clench and you eventually have…

Author: Gabriella Greison Publisher: Bollati Boringhieri Release date: 09-01-2020 Einsten forever His image is everywhere. On mugs, T-shirts, on city walls, on pins and bags; and his phrases and aphorisms about science and life are quoted every day. Albert Einstein is the true iconic scientist of the last century; his name-even for those who struggle…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 09-01-2020 Ah l’amore l’amore A new investigation for Rocco Schiavone forced to investigate a case of malpractice from a hospital bed. And in the meantime, the deputy detective is almost fifty years old, certain hardships are softening, perhaps a love affair appears. In the background the private affairs…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 15-03-2021 Un tè a Chaverton House An old English mansion where anything can happen. My name is Angelica and this is the list of things I had imagined for myself: a faithful boyfriend, a nice little terrace, parents without high expectations. Too bad none of them came true.…

Author: Andrea Marcolongo Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 19-11-2019 Alla fonte delle parole 99 words to reclaim the world. 99 words to regain a voice that is otherwise in danger of becoming too feeble and lost among the haste and sloppiness of this new century of ours. 99 words to rebel against the confusion and darkness…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Raffaello Cortina Editore Release date: 07-11-2019 Le nuove melanconie Do human beings prefer darkness to light? Slavery to freedom? Dead life to living life? After Man without the Unconscious, Massimo Recalcati returns with this book to interrogate the psychoanalytic clinic in its relation to the crucial transformations of contemporary society and…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Einaudi Release data: 29-10-2019 I racconti delle tenebre Who does not know fear? Every age has its nightmares, but every nightmare – for those who experience it – is the most frightening of all. Terror stories are whispered in the dark, there where imagination reigns unquestioned with all its mysteries. That…

Author: Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre e Pietrangelo Buttafuoco  Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 24-10-2019 Sotto il suo passo nascono i fiori When, at the point of death, Goethe moved his index finger from bottom to top, the witnesses who were close to him were surprised: for centuries this gesture remained emblematic and inexplicable. Today, thanks…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 21-10-2019 Questione di Costanza Verona is not my city. And paleopathology is not my profession. Yet, here I am. How could this happen, to me of all people? My name is Costanza Macallè and on the plane that is taking me from Sicily to the city in Veneto…

Author: AA.VV Publisher: HarperCollins Release date: 03-10-2019 Le nuove Eroidi Just over two thousand years ago Ovid wrote an extraordinarily modern and original collection of poetic letters: the Heroides, a series of verse epistles in which the heroines of myth addressed their (generally not blameless) husbands and companions, overturning the traditional male point of view…

Author: Ugo Cornia Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 03-10-2019 Favole da riformatorio Evicted or retired wolves, unemployed moose who fall ill with depression, Rapunzel, Onion, and Tomatozoon kidnapped by the agribusiness jihad, a kitten who wanted to become Puss in Boots but has no money to buy boots… Drawing from and twisting the classic tradition of…

Author: Marco Filoni Publisher: Skira Release date: 05-09-2019 Anatomia di un assedio “Be afraid, we will do the rest.” The maxim of every self-respecting authoritarian regime seems to resound today, thunderously, in our democratic, free Western societies. We are increasingly afraid: an ancient, deep fear that besieges us in our homes, in the streets of…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 03-09-2019 Rolando del camposanto Rolando lives in the cemetery, along with his uncle who is a caretaker. He leaves it only to go to school, where his classmates avoid him, and he has no friends except for a blackbird named Cip. When cousins Marika and Mirko Gini appear…

Author: Viola Ardone Publisher: Einaudi Stile Libero Big Release date: 24-09-2019 Il treno dei bambini Sometimes we have to give up everything, even a mother’s love, to discover our destiny. No novel had ever told this story with such dogged candor. The Italian publishing case of the last Frankfurt Fair, now being translated into 25…

Author: AA.VV Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 04-07-2019 Cinquanta in blu. Otto racconti gialli For the publishing house’s 50th anniversary, several Sellerio authors pulled a book from the catalog off the shelf and retold it in a compelling new storyline. The result was eight extraordinary adventures. For the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Sellerio…

Author: Giulia Binando Melis Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 10-02-2022 La bambina sputafuoco My name is Mina and I like lots of things. I like lion’s teeth, tinned tuna, books, ricotta, fireflies and, above all, dragons and the fire that comes out of their mouths. Nobody kills dragons, they’re so strong and that’s why I feel…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 15-10-2019 La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia. Il romanzo del film When his only son Tonio is captured by hunters, Leontius, the bear king, rallies his people and descends from the mountains to find him. With the help of a strange magician, Professor De Ambrosiis, he defeats…

Author: Eliana Liotta Publisher: La Nave di Teseo Release date: 30-05-2019 Prove di felicità. 25 idee riconosciute dalla scienza per vivere con gioia Happiness is a gift we should give ourselves. After all, we deserve it. It is said that we are born to suffer, but studies prove that human history advances in pursuit of…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 06-05-2019 Lena e la tempesta It is said that each of us, in the course of our lives, accumulates an average of thirteen secrets. Of these, five are truly unmentionable. Lena has only one, but it is felt inside as if it were worth a thousand. No matter…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 02-05-2019 Ogni riferimento è puramente casuale Seven amusements around the world of books. Satire, irony and sarcasm about the cynicism that pervades the culture industry. “Yet when he began working in publishing, his intentions were otherwise. Books are needed. Books are the building blocks of a society, they…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Solferino Release date: 02-05-2019 Tutti primi sul traguardo del mio cuore For thousands of kilometers, by car, on foot, on ferries, buses and cable cars, a caravan full of color tries to keep up with the furious pace set by the cyclists who in three weeks tour all of Italy, from…

Author: Guido Lombardi Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 04-04-2019 Il ladro di giorni Salvo, 11, from Bari, hates many things. When you get hurt and the grown-ups tell you “don’t worry, you didn’t do anything,” but they make you get a tetanus shot. When you write a good paper and you don’t even get to be…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Release date: 29-03-2019 Lettera da un tempo lontano Six short stories developed through Lorenzo Mattotti’s visions and the crystal-clear texts by Lilia Ambrosi and Gabriella Giandelli. Six unusual ‘letters’ sent from an estranged dimension where people are able to reflect upon their lives and relationships, in the end, questioning the…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Bompiani Release date: 27-03-2019 Le avventure di Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi visto da Lorenzo Mattotti For many years Lorenzo Mattotti has been confronting, in a process of continuous reworking, one of the best-known figures in universal literature: Pinocchio. The story of the piece of wood that comes to life and his…

Author: Andrea Camilleri Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 26-03-2019 Km 123 It all begins with a switched-off cell phone. The caller is Ester, who does not answer is Giulio, who ended up in the hospital because of a bad collision on the Aurelia road. Turning the phone back on, however, is Giuditta, Giulio’s wife, who obviously…

Author: Massimo Recalcati Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 07-03-2019 Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull’amore Because “yet” is the word of love. Who said that empathy is necessary to ground a good relationship? That love is first and foremost dialogue? What if those of “dialogue” and “empathy” were watchwords aimed precisely at averting the Otherness of…

Author: Michela Marzano Publisher: Einaudi Stile Libero Big Release date: 22-01-2019 Idda Alessandra is a biologist who teaches in Paris, where she lives with Pierre. For years she has not gone to Salento, the place where she was born and which she left after a dramatic event, because she cannot come to terms with the…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 10-01-2019 Rien ne va plus A cash van disappears, literally into thin air. It was loaded with nearly three million, the revenues of the Saint-Vincent casino. Statements by one of the guards, left stunned on the ground, set in motion a fairly routine robbery investigation. But there is…

Author: Giosuè Calaciura Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 29-11-2018 Il tram di Natale A streetcar, which makes itself imagined as an island of light in the darkness of Christmas night, travels through the far suburbs. Inside it carries a mystery, fragile and abandoned. Poor people who have finished their day get on. The prostitute deported from…

Author: Davide Boosta Dileo Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 27-11-2018 C’era una volta il silenzio e altre favole per innamorati These fairy tales are born as a pledge of love, and you can feel it. For of love, of intimacy, of warmth shines every word. They are fairy tales for adults who have never stopped feeling…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Release date: 07-10-2019 La zona fatua In an undefined landscape, dominated by a leaden sky that hangs over a windswept meadow, two small rubber puppets greet the story’s protagonist, a man whose face is marked by a red blotch that sometimes blazes, burning his skin. A mark of sadness according…

Author: Eliana Liotta e Massimo Clementi Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 25-06-2020 La rivolta della natura Extreme heat, hurricanes, torrential rains, wildfires, aggressive new viruses like the one that scarred the entire world in 2020. Nature has begun to rebel. And there is no more time: man’s impact on our planet now carries…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Sellerio editore Release date: 15-11-2018 Il delitto di Kolymbetra Famous archaeologist Demetrio Alù is found murdered in Kolymbetra, the enchanted garden of Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples. An unexplained crime, consumed among almond trees, ruins and Saracen olive trees, under the indifferent gaze of the Temple of the Dioscuri. Alù’s death…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 31-10-2018 Le ossa della principessa Welcome to the great Shrine of Humiliation. That is, the institute of forensic medicine where Alice Allevi does everything in her power to ruin her career as an intern. If it is true that unrequited loves are the most heartbreaking, Alice’s love for…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 31-10-2018 Una lunga estate crudele Alice Allevi, a young forensic medicine resident, has now learned to resist everything. Or almost anything. As a good student, she resists pressure from her superiors, who put her in charge of supervising a resident… herself, who struggles to supervise herself! This is…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Release date: 15-10-2018 Caboto Caboto? Cabot? Gavotto? Caputo? Gaeta? He was Chief Pilot of the Kingdom of Castile for thirty years and he is said to have drawn the first globe, yet we don’t even know his name for sure. We only know that the man known as Sebastian Cabot,…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio editore Release date: 11-10-2018 Fate il vostro gioco Rocco is down in the dumps, betrayed by Caterina who left the Aosta police station, abandoned by his friends, a soul in pain wanders around the city with only a desire for carnal and meaningless relationships. His almost paternal bond with his…

Author: Pierluigi Battista Publisher: La nave di Teseo Release date: 27-09-2018 Il senso di colpa del Dottor Zivago When Soviet police knock on Olga Ivinskaya’s door on August 16, 1960, she already knows the reason for that unwelcome visit. For fifteen years she has in fact been the lover, friend, and confidante of the writer…

Author: Sorelle Passera Publisher: TEA Release date: 13-09-2018 Generi di conforto Well arrived, we are Marisa and Gigi, better known as the Sparrow Sisters, and it is with great pleasure that we welcome you to our kitchen, we hope you remembered to bring the wine. To listen to certain rumors, it seems that once you…

Author: Franca Cancogni Publisher: Bompiani Release date: 04-07-2018 Il pane del ritorno “What frightens me is that slowly time goes enveloping everything in a fine dust that blurs the contours, dulls the colors. Even the most faithful of photographs yellow and crumple at the corners […]. From the more distant past, on the other hand,…

Author: Luca Beatrice Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 22-05-2018 Canzoni d’amore The music we listen to is revealing of the times we are going through: the fascinating journey through the history of our country in which Luca Beatrice leads us starts from this suggestive theory. A song for each year, or almost, from the 1960s to…

Author: Eliana Liotta Publisher: La Nave di Teseo Release date: 17-05-2018 L’età non è uguale per tutti Everything depends on others. Only time is our own. (Seneca) Can youth be dilated? The answer is yes. A picture book that teaches how to defend our bodies and our health, with practical suggestions for diet and exercise.…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 10-05-2018 Dalle macerie. Cronache sul fronte meridionale Alessandro Leogrande was a great intellectual of our time. He wrote to fight against borders and shipwrecks, caporalato and ignorance, bad faith and injustice. This volume collects all the work he dedicated to Taranto, his city. A perfect city, as Pasolini…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Edizioni Release date: 09-05-2018 Stigmate First published in 1999 in Einaudi’s Stile Libero series and adapted for film by Spanish director Adán Aliaga in 2010 under the title Estigmas, Stigmate is now being republished by #logosedizioni as the second stage of an editorial journey that re-presents the artistic evolution of…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 26-04-2018 L’anello mancante. Cinque indagini di Rocco Schiavone For the first time together, these short stories, which have already appeared in various themed anthologies, give us a portrait of Deputy Superintendent Rocco Schiavone. They are five tiles that help define the character for those who already know him…

Author: Simone Lenzi Publisher: Rizzoli Release date: 24-04-2018 In esilio Every family has a quarter of dark blood, passed down from generation to generation. Those who have found peace and serenity, however, must know that the quarter of dark blood runs through their veins and it only takes a little for it to return to…

Author: Lorenzo Mattotti Publisher: Logos Edizioni Release date: 26-03-2018 L’uomo alla finestra Lorenzo Mattotti’s first graphic novel is today republished by logosedizioni as the start of an editorial journey that re-presents the artistic evolution of the most beloved of Italian illustrators in a new guise. A novel made of words and black and white images…

Author: Laura Martinetti e Manuela Perugini Publisher: Garzanti Release date: 22-02-2018 Nient’altro al mondo Sometimes life gives two people the same experience at the same time. That’s what happens to Alma and Maria, who both find out they are pregnant in the same few months. They are at different stages in their lives, yet suddenly…

Author: Ritanna Armeni Publisher: Ponte alle grazie Release date: 08-02-2018 Una donna può tutto They were called Night Witches. In 1941, a group of Soviet girls manage to win a leading role in the battle against the Third Reich. Rejecting all male presence, on fragile but agile biplanes, they show the daring, the courage of…

Author: AA.VV Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 23-11-2017 Un anno in giallo A Year in Yellow collects 12 short stories, one for each month of the year; each author has chosen “his” month, setting there, in that time of the year, a story with “his” detective. Opening the collection with the month of January is, of…

Author: Pierluigi Battista Publisher: Mondadori Releaase date: 17-10-2017 A proposito di Marta “What books do you read? What movies have you seen? What music do you listen to? What items do you buy, and which do you feel you cannot do without? What do you eat, and what relationship do you have with medicine, with…

Author: Marco Presta Publisher: Einaudi Release date: 17-10-2017 Accendimi Catherine has a bakery. And she has an average boyfriend, average girlfriends, and an average life. She is, in short, serenely desperate, part of the great river of the dissatisfied that every day, from all over the world, receives millions of tributaries. Then a voice speaks…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: La Nave di Teseo Release date: 05-10-2017 Strabuttanissima Sicilia Rosario Crocetta goes away and leaves his hole: a chasm in the living flesh of Sicily, due to the inability of a government that only the imposture of a Pappagone Revolution could make survive for an entire legislature. With the complicity of…

Author: Andrea Camilleri Publisher: Rizzoli Release date: 28-09-2017 Esercizi di memoria Every morning at seven o’clock, washed, shaved, fully dressed, I sit at my study table and write. I am a very disciplined man, a perfect employee of writing. Maybe with a few vices, because while I write I smoke, a lot, and drink beer.…

Author: Fabio Genovesi Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 05-9-2017 Il mare dove non si tocca The Sea Where You Don’t Touch is read in one breath and stays forever in the heart, along with the unique voice of the narrator, a boy with a head full of questions and a heart overflowing with stories. Fabio is…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer Release date: 19-09-2017 Armatevi e morite Anton Chekhov said that if a gun appears in a novel, it must fire. This is a fundamental principle of storytelling: novelistic, cinematic, theatrical. But it is not a stage artifice at all: it is simply reality. Because, data in hand, exactly…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 31-08-2017 Pulvis et umbra On the backdrop of Manzini’s long-awaited new novel are Aosta and Rome, the opposite poles where Rocco Schiavone’s life unfolds and the threads of the affair we had left at the end of 7-7-2007 are reknotted, when Adele had not yet had justice or…

Author: Simone Lenzi Publisher: Marsilio Release date: 29-06-2017 Per il verso giusto All songs are love songs (even the ones that are not); all songs are political songs (even the ones that are not committed); all songs are catchy (even the ones that when your grandfather heard them, he would look out into his bedroom…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 15-06-2017 La frontiera There is an imaginary yet very real line, a wound that is not closed, a place of everyone and no one of which everyone, invisibly, is a part: it is the frontier that separates and at the same time unites the North of the world,…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: La Nave di Teseo Release date: 18-5-2017 I baci sono definitivi Every day, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco-with his commuter backpack-enters the subway, finds himself between the pages of a spell and chronicles it. Every day he faces the underground journey and makes a note of it for his own notebook. Extraordinary encounters in…

Author: Giosuè Calaciura Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 13-04-2017 Borgo Vecchio In metropolises there are often areas that seem to concentrate in a few streets the energy, character, darkness, violence and beauty of the whole city, as if they were a condensate of life, a clumped and strong version of the flavors of every corner and…

Author: Ilaria Macchia Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 11-4-2017 Ho visto un uomo a pezzi Seven small explosions, seven pieces of one woman’s life, seven stories. The protagonist of these stories is called Irene. We know about her that she always feels naked in front of people’s gazes, that she has a body that looks perfect…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 16-03-2017 La giostra dei criceti The hamster carousel recounts a robbery and grand scheme. Four thugs of the Roman mala, René, Franco, Cinese, and Cencio, set up a bank robbery, but something goes wrong. Meanwhile in the palaces of power, in the offices of the Treasury Ministry, some…

Author: Mattotti – Kramsky Publisher: Logos Edizioni Release date: 08-03-2017 Ghirlanda In a fantastic world populated by imaginary and marvelous creatures, Ippolite – the shaman’s son – sets out after his wife Cocciniglia, who has been missing for seven days now from the Ghirs’ village. He doesn’t know yet that his journey will be much…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Editori Laterza Release date: 23-02-2017 The image of Sicily is linked to so many masterpieces of literature and cinema of the past. Great Sicilian authors have left indispensable pages and made the island metaphor, emblem, paradigm. But reading Sicily through their eyes is like walking around with a nineteenth-century travel guide.…

Author: Franco Bernini Publisher: Chiarelettere Release date: 12-01-2017 A ciascuno i suoi santi Enrica is no ordinary girl. She is reckless, vital, unpredictable. Without certainty and without fear. But she has a weakness: she cares too much about the number of her followers. Bruno Brunori is not just anyone either; he is a leading face…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: Skira Release date: 24-11-2016 La notte tu mi fai impazzire Agostino Tassi, a painter, in 1611 began with his established friend Orazio Gentileschi to decorate the Casino delle Muse in Rome. At the end of February 1612 Orazio brought him to trial for abusing his daughter Artemisia, also a talented painter.…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Chiarelettere Release date: 20-10-2016 Orfani bianchi Between Moldova and Rome, two worlds compared, a harsh and cruel fate, the strength and beauty of those who choose to fight, not to give up. From the eyes of a foreigner the portrait of how we are made, the feeling of our time. The…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 01-09-2016 La fabbrica delle stelle Saverio Lamanna is a disillusioned journalist turned political communicator. He is at home in the Rome of casual flirtations and trendy clubs, in the smart suit of the disengaged 40-year-old. But a professional stumble shatters his house of cards. Fired by the undersecretary…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 07-07-2016 7-7-2007 Rocco Schiavone is the usual grumpy, rude, rumpled cop we have come to know in previous novels chronicling his investigations. But in this one he is also, in his own way, happy. And in fact here we are a few years earlier, when his wife Marina…

Author: Ilaria Bernardini Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 30-01-2018 Faremo Foresta The enchanting story of two women who overcame fear and pain by cultivating an urban forest together. A universal recipe for when life feels barren. A botanical tale of closeness and caring. Anna is mourning the end of her love-she and Nico’s dad are breaking…

Author: Leonardo Colombati Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 27-11-2018 Bruce Springsteen: Come un killer sotto il sole For more than four decades, Bruce Springsteen has enchanted millions around the world with his unique voice and unparalleled talent for storytelling, establishing him as one of the musical greats of all time. With this monumental work, Leonardo Colombati…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: Giugno 2017 L’agenda ritrovata Helena Janeczek, Carlo Lucarelli, Vanni Santoni, Alessandro Leogrande, Diego De Silva, Gioacchino Criaco and Evelina Santangelo. Seven authors, each with their own story, their own sensibility and their own voice, re-actualize with as many unpublished stories, written specifically for L’agenda ritrovata, the core of…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 03-11-2017 Arabesque Everything has changed for Alice Allevi: it is a new world that awaits her outside the Institute of Forensic Medicine where she spent complicated but, in their own way, happy years. For Alice is no longer a resident, but a full-fledged Specialist in Forensic Medicine. And…

Author: Alessia Gazzola Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 15-10-2018 Il ladro gentiluomo Alice Allevi, finally a specialist in forensic medicine, faced difficult choices both professionally and romantically. After a long and stormy courtship, it seemed that something had been born between her and Claudio Conforti, the charming and unpredictable forensic scientist with whom she has shared…

Author: Davide Enia Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 18-5-2017 ISBN: 9788838936579 Appunti per un naufragio “Notes on a Shipwreck” is a novel which in fact describes several different shipwrecks: that of the people who, ploughing across the surface of death, cross the Mediterranean Sea in unimaginable conditions; that of the people who pick them up, at…

Author: Barbara Frandino Publisher: Fabbri Editori Release date: 30-3-2017 Che Paura! Is it true that when parents split up they have to share everything, even the cat, and that therefore mom might get the snout and dad the tail? And that a child once put his hand in the dark and never found it again?…

Author: Santi Laganà Publisher: Mondadori Release date: 16-06-2020 I giorni del ferro e del sangue A perverted and corrupt teenager sits on the papal throne, what is left of independent Italy is in disarray torn apart by infighting, and the countryside is a no-man’s land where violence and abuse rule. Anna is a 15-year-old peasant…

Author: Fabiano Massimi Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 13-05-2021 I demoni di Berlino Berlin, February 27, 1933. At nine o’clock in the evening the city streets are deserted because of the bitter cold. Until that moment, the evening is identical to many others marking the end of the German winter. But in an instant everything changes:…

Author:Cinzia LeonePublisher:MondadoriRelease date:12-02-2019 Ti rubo la vita Stolen lives. Like that of Miriam, wife of a Muslim Turk who in 1936 decides to replace the Jewish merchant she is in business with, forcing her too to change her name and religion. Stealing Judith’s life in 1938 are the racial laws: kicked out of school, with…

Author: Alessandro Leogrande Publisher: Feltrinelli Release date: 12-05-2016 Uomini e caporali The South, and in particular Capitanata, has for several years become a destination for tens of thousands of immigrants who flock there for the tomato picking season. Harvesting the “red gold” is extremely hard work that breaks their backs and arms, but they are…

Author: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 12-05-2016 Il mio Leo Longanesi Leo Longanesi was a polemical and nonconformist innovator, an outstanding writer who embodied the best tradition of Italian journalism and transmitted his spirit to the publishing house he founded. A true enfant terrible, a merciless whipping boy, whose writings still retain years later…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 23-07-2015 Era di maggio Era of May kicks off three days after the events that conclude the previous novel, It’s Not the Season. For the investigation that opened there has not yet concluded. Then there is the most serious fact, the murder of Adele, a close friend of…

Author: Gaetano Savatteri Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo Release date: 12-05-2016 Il calcio in giallo With a slight bitterness that soon becomes social denunciation and a desire to unmask the intrigues that stifle Italy’s most beloved sport, the Sellerio detectives set out to prove themselves, each with character, method and their lives behind them, as readers…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo Release date: 28-01-2016 Cinque indagini romane This volume brings together short stories published in several anthologies by this publisher, starting with Capodanno in giallo. Gathered together, they make it possible to reconstruct what can be called the antecedent of a character who has wide literary notoriety today, vice-policeman…

Author: Antonio Manzini Publisher: Sellerio Release date: 30-11-2015 Sull’orlo del precipizio What would happen if all major Italian publishing houses were grouped under one acronym? Giorgio Volpe is Italy’s greatest writer, a powerhouse in the field of letters. Upon delivery of his new novel Sull’orlo del precipizio he discovers that a string of investors has…

Author: Salvatore Striano Publishere: Chiarelettere Release date: 21-04-2016 La tempesta di Sasà In life we can and very often do get lost. But it is never forever. Salvatore Striano at fourteen had war on his mind, cocaine in his blood, and two guns tucked in his pants. He was one of the leaders of the…

Author: Fabiano Massimi Publisher: Longanesi Release date: 02-01-2020 L’angelo di Monaco Munich, September 1931. Commissioner Sigfried Sauer is called urgently to a stately apartment on Prinzregentenplatz, where 22-year-old Angela Raubal, known as Geli, has been found lifeless in her locked room. Next to her lifeless body is a revolver: everything points to suicide. Geli, however,…

Author: Daniela Raimondi Publisher: Casa Editrice Nord Release date: 24-08-2020 La casa sull’argine The Casadio family has always lived in the village of Stellata, at the crossroads of Lombardy, Emilia and Veneto. Simple, straightforward, hardworking people. Then, in the early 19th century, something changes: Giacomo Casadio falls in love with Viollca Toska, a gypsy woman,…