Nicoletta Vallorani – Wolf Eyes
A Parable against prejudices
The young Inuit Azùl wants to avenge the death of a friend killed by the Motherless, fierce and mysterious beings who...
Vittorio Curtoni – White on black
How can you die
White on black presents nine short stories of Vittorio Curtoni, a great master of Italian science fiction, preceded by a masterly...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Like a Whale
The value of “whaleness”
The dolphin Ciro saves (or maybe not) the whale Alice, orphaned following the escape of the mother in front of the...
Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
In 2075 the moon is used as a penal colony by the Terrans, where all types of scum are exiled....
Mika Waltari – The Dark Angel
The end of an era
1453: Constantinople is going to fall into Turkish hands. It’s the end of an era. Among the fatalistic desperation of...
Loren D. Estleman – Frames
A cinema detective
Valentino is a UCLA archivist and likes to call himself a film detective, since his main occupation is to find and recover...
W.R. Burnett – Conant
Conant is a classic gangster-like thriller that sees a journalist facing a crazy crime organization and that shows some noir moments of undeniable charm.
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Catherine Dunne – The Walled Garden
Beth, who has left Ireland and her family to find her own independence in London, has a divorce behind her and lives a teenager...
Erri De Luca – The Opposite of One
"The opposite of one" is a collection of autobiographical stories that opens with a small poem in verses dedicated to the author's mother: because...
Leonardo Sciascia – Black on Black
“The emperor is naked”, the intellectual said
Black on Black was published in 1979, when Leonardo Sciascia was already known to the wider public...
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Nocturnal Animals
Susan (Amy Adams) is an unhappy gallery owner, imprisoned in the apparent perfection of an upper middle class life. When she returns...
