The marvellous Attlee takes us on the journey, through space and time, of one violin, whose voice "was powerful enough to unbuckle joints". Cremona, Russia, Venice, Alpine forests... (Her la... read more
SA was the pen name of Marta Felicina Faccio (1976-1960); this is her unforgettable autobiographical novel, published in her native Italy in 1906. Both an education sentimentale and a very e... read more
Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and more: Italian fiction and non-fiction from the mid-late C2oth to the present. Ground-breaking and compulsive, the first novel in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet stand... read more