Gérard de Nerval – The Tale of Caliph Hakim

  Joy and revolution An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights” into a crucible of familiar references while avoiding sterility...

Robert Graves – The Scream (The Shout)

   Anguish of the Absolute A mysterious and spooky man falls into the life of a young couple and upsets their existences. Short and striking novel that,...

Giuseppe Berto – Blackshirt War (Guerra in camicia nera)

  On the Side of those Who Believed An almost forgotten book from an author who should be reconsidered, it’s the war journal of a young...

Julien Gracq – In Argol Castle (Chateau d’Argol)

The Ivory Tower of Gracq Presumptuous as few, Gracq describes a ménage a trois, often sublimated by the symbolic world, without ever writing a single...

Ross MacDonald – The Chill

  Those Little Bourgeois A guncotton thriller, with a gallery of cleverly staged characters and a rhythm that manages to captivate from beginning to end despite...

Howard Roughan – The Up and Comer

  Topical Entertainment Cynical and rampant Philip Randall, a young New York lawyer, is trapped in the mesh of his own and others' opportunism. Beyond the final...

Ambrose Bierce – The Monk And The Hangman’s Daughter

  Damages of Religious Manichaeism Bierce gives the best of himself in this short novel presented as the diary of a novice who, despite his religion,...

Alessandro Perissinotto – Sowing the Wind (Semina il vento)

  Even in Vercelli Wolves Kill A love-and-death story between an Italian teacher from the Piedmont region and a young Iranian-born French woman. After their move...

Carlo Cassola – Local Railroad

Watercolor railroad Marked by the rattle of trains, Cassola outlines fragments of choral daily life of families and landscapes crossed by the local railroad tracks....

Elif Shafak – 10 Minutes 38 seconds in this strange world

This book was a contender for the Booker Prize 2019, and IMO it should have won. The story is genius, it begins with the...

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Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus

Common sense-ism tells us all this look at me energy, this childish hope that we might belong to somewhere, someone, has to be expended before we get given...