Pocket Reviews

The right to be happy like everyone This book is neither a novel nor an essay, it’s a work that with brightness, and a very...

We are all Miriàm "In the name of the Father" inaugurates the Sign of the Cross. In the name of the mother inaugurates life: with...

Time for memories Winner of the Strega Award in 1964 with The Shadow of the Hills (L’ombra delle Colline), Arpino needs no introduction. His novel...

The gears of destiny Tommy, Ruth and Kathy are raised in a very peculiar boarding school, where the students are taught to appreciate and master...

Like a seed Sometimes a life contains many other lives. In this novel, De Luca uses four lives and a house to tell just one....

Poetic Dystopia The novel is set in a discouraging and profetic scenario - a run-down New York City, where people are uncultured and living in...

Like a verdict «In his generation debacle there was a powerfuljustice hand, in the scourge there was a judgement to read. They were defeat to...

Our costumary raving Fabri Fiacca and Denis Venturi create twelve novels halfway between genres and selecting surreal registers. Reality is presented through paradoxical and grotesque tones,...

The book, a fake autobiography, tells the story of Claudius' life from his childhood until the day he is proclaimed emperor. A very appropriate literary...

An intense perception of the world  Arthur is a lonely man, who is at the mercy of his obesity; Kel is a young budding baseball...