Family secrets, a doorbell ringing in the dead of night, a funeral, a curse, an unhappy marriage, and a daughter…
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Elena Ferrante, with the publication of her first book, Troubling Love in 1992, announced to her publisher that she would…
Readers long spellbound by Ferrante’s Valhalla-like worlds of the Italian South, her redoubtable skills as a writer, the swarming opacity…
In 2018 the Strega prize for best Italian fiction was awarded to Helena Janeczek, a Polish-German novelist writing in Italian,…
Anna Maria Ortese’s Evening Descends Upon the Hills is a book that, Atlas-like, seems to bear on its shoulders the…
The latest novel from one of Italy’s most prolific and popular contemporary writers appears on its surface to be a…