Genre: Fiction

Illustrated by Dr. Anak Agung Madé Djelantik These magical true stories are filled with the refreshing suspense and wonder so essential in times of uncertainty and fear. This collection of life adventures is the fruit of the long-time friendship between storyteller, Idanna Pucci – Florentine by birth and Balinese by […]

Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir

The Island that is No More – The World Odissey ...

11 Jun, 2017 in Idanna Pucci tagged Fiction / Literary Fiction / Memoir by Admin

This is the disturbing yet fascinating story of one family’s struggle with the plague but also a novel about butchering animals and eating meat, about old and modern plagues on the backdrop of medieval Florence. After Boccaccio’s Decameron, The Cleaver is the only Italian work of fiction about the Plague […]

Genre: Fiction, Historical Novels

The Cleaver

11 Jun, 2017 in Paola Presciuttini tagged Fiction / Historical Novels by Admin

For his works, he has received the highest Macedonian Literature Awards: Racin Award Pechalbarska povelba Award Vancho Nikoleski Award Novel of the Year Award for the novel The Well Short listed for the International Balkanika Award Translation Grants for Macedoniain authors are given by the Ministry of Culture of the […]

Genre: Fiction, Literary

The Circle

24 May, 2017 in Dimitar Bashevski tagged Fiction / Literary by Admin

A great love story inside a dark, almost Gothic, fairy tale in rural Italy. The return of Samuel Radi gives a jolt to the monotony of life in the country, stirring curiosity and resentment. The inhabitants of Le Case begin to tell the suggestions they have of him, of his […]

Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction

The Houses of Discontent

9 Apr, 2017 in Sacha Naspini tagged Fiction / Literary Fiction by Admin

THE TRUE STORY OF A 19TH CENTURY CRIME OF PASSION The true story of Cora Slocomb, who shocked New York’s Gilded Age by launching the first nation-wide campaign against the death penalty in 1895 to save a twenty year-old Italian immigrant from execution–the first woman sentenced to the electric chair. […]

Genre: Fiction, True Crime

The Trials of Maria Barbella

8 Apr, 2017 in Idanna Pucci tagged Fiction / True Crime by Admin

Today is Nazo Heydo’s wedding. The day she will set herself on fire. This is a profoundly moving true-to-life tale about a Yazidi woman, Nazo, and Soz, a Yazidi nurse, and their struggle to survive. Nazo must escape slavery from ISIS to reach her forbidden lover. Soz is a female […]

Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction

What Comes with the Dust Goes with the Wind

22 Mar, 2017 in Gharbi M. Mustafa tagged Fiction / Literary Fiction by Admin

A contemporary tale about the second virginity of a woman ‘reborn’ after a breakup After ten years of living with the same man, she ‘awakens’ to a world that no longer plays by the rules she knows. Celeste Primavera’s new life is a recovery of affective, sexual, and social literacy. […]

Genre: Fiction

Alice Without Wonder

19 Mar, 2017 in Emanuela Mascherini tagged Fiction by Admin

The Last Soldier has been compared by critics with anti-war works such as Catch-22, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Got His Gun, Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter. Eliav Kadosh grew up in an unprivileged, peripheral community in Israel in the 1990s. After excelling at the academic […]

Genre: Fiction, Literary