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 My great-grandmother used to tell me about her handsome husband, second-in command on the Canaria, the beautiful family flagship, lost somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. According to great-grandma, Sebastiano wasn't dead but had been stranded miraculously on some little island, and was trying to find his way back to her. She waited for him all her life, which began in 1860, just a few weeks after Garibaldi had put out to sea heading for Sicily, in his expedition of the 1000. Her long life ended in 1949, a few days after Togliatti, the leader of the Italian Communist Party, escaped an attempted murder. Even when I was very little, I was already aware that there was something odd about great-grandma Eleonora. Because beside the passion that shone through her tales and the romantic quality of that relentless waiting, her general behavior was that of a boring, stingy, stiff woman.
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 Martina Satriano is a successful 42-year old Italian university lecturer living in New York. She is an intellectual, attractive and a superlative cook, but she is ultimately lonely.
Her only substantial relationship is with a machine of her own invention, through which she aims to demonstrate her alternative hypothesis on personal identity. |
 Where is Millos Jarco?
That's the mistery at the heart of this sparkling satiric novel by prize-winning Italian author Francesca Duranti.
And who is Milos Jarco?
He is the world's most famous Eastern European author, who burst onto the literary scene when his impassioned speech at the PEN conference in New York City made headlines everywhere. His novels since have met with international acclaim, but he has become a recluse. Why? |
 A contemporary comedy of character and social class, a story of pasts redeemed, relationships righted, and a future secured during the course of a summer weekend on a Tuscan estate.
Through his binoculars, from his hilltop window, Aldo Rugani watches the goings-on of the troubled aristocratic Santini family. Born poor, smitten early by images of luxury, Aldo has forged a new life for himself - literally - by creating "old" works of Italian art. Now a respectable art dealer, he still feels that he is on the outside looking in at a world he cannot enter. |
 This prize-winning novel, a bestseller in Italy, is an extraordinary tour de force. It is a story about a story, a narrative in which the boundaries between truth and fiction blur in a fascinating, and increasingly sinister, way. Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, discovers a reference to a lost German novel - The house on moon lake - and determines to find it. |
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