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1	If on a winter's night a traveler more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. see all copies from £2.77! new only from £8.67! \| first editions
2	If on a winter's night a traveller more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? Are you the reader? Is this the book? Beware. All assumptions are dangerous on this most bewitching ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £4.67! \| first editions
3	Man more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist see all copies from £3.24! first editions
4	Inshallah more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist Oriana Fallaci's sprawling epic of men at war, a bestseller in Europe, is told from the point of view of a young Italian soldier caught in the tragedy of the Middle East and the fragile human lives who people his horizon. see all copies from £1.54! new only from £53.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Island of the Day Before more books like this by Umberto Eco add to wishlist A veteran of the Thirty Years War, Roberto della Griva is shipwrecked in the South Seas on a secret mission to the Antipodes. Roberto is saved by the appearance of an abandoned ship, the Daphne, which has enough stores to sustain him. The time aboard the Daphne affords Roberto opportunity to reflect. As he looks back on his loves and education, he ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Cosmicomics more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?" ... see all copies from £5.84! new only from £8.05! \| first editions
7	Adventures of Pinocchio more books like this by Carlo Collodi add to wishlist The classic children's story, written by Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) in 1883. It tells the story of Pinocchio, a puppet come to life, whose various adventures serve to teach him right from wrong. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
8	The Time of Indifference more books like this by Alberto Moravia add to wishlist IN 1929, THE FIFTH YEAR of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, "The Time of Indifference." It was a deceptively simple story - five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families and lovers. The place is Rome. The central ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.15! \| first editions
9	Mr Palomar more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist In this brilliantly imagined and obsessive novel, Calvino's hero, like the telescope he is named after, is dedicated to minutely observing everything around him, no matter how ordinary. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £4.26! \| first editions
10	Letter to a Child Never Born more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist see all copies from £1.91! new only from £53.87! \| first editions
11	Arturo's island more books like this by Elsa Morante add to wishlist ON A SMALL ISLAND in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his ... see all copies from £11.77! first editions
12	Don Camillo's dilemma more books like this by Giovanni Guareschi add to wishlist see all copies from £4.31! first editions
13	Fontamara more books like this by Ignazio Silone add to wishlist see all copies from £4.34! new only from £13.05! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Road to San Giovanni more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist Five "memory exercises," written between 1962 and 1977, that illuminate Calvino's life: his childhood home, his cinema-crazed adolescence, his experiences in World War II, an interlude in Paris, and a final essay, "From the Opaque", which sets out his beliefs about writing. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism more books like this by Robin Wynette Pickering-Iazzi add to wishlist Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism and contrary to claims of most postwar literary historians, in the 1920s and 1930s, women authors enjoyed wide publication and critical recognition in Italy. These 16 stories, for example, all appeared first on the cultural pages of important Italian newspapers. Three are by the 1926 Nobel Prize ... see all copies from £3.63! new only from £8.48! \| first editions
16 view cover	A life more books like this by Italo Svevo add to wishlist Reprinted with a new cover in B format, "A Life" is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great divide between what he wants and what he actually has and gets. Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet ... see all copies from £2.75! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Tartar Steppe more books like this by Dino Buzzati add to wishlist A young officer is stationed in a remote area and wishes only to escape. Gradually, however, he falls in love with the place, which is both mountainous and desert-like, and spends most of his life there. Written in 1938, Dino Buzzati's deliberately uneventful allegory owes debts to Kafka as well as to Calvino. see all copies from £1.58! new only from £4.71! \| first editions
18 view cover	The betrothed more books like this by Alessandro Manzoni add to wishlist New edition of one of the great historical novels of the nineteenth century. Set in Lombardy during the wars, famine and plague of 1628-39, THE BETROTHED tells the dramatic story of two young lovers. Following them through exile, plague and inner suffering, it shows great richness of characterization and a profound interest in the workings of ... see all copies from £1.51! new only from £9.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Under the jaguar sun more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell. 'Each story continues Calvino's lifelong campaign to add more territory to the empire of the imagination; each discloses marvels in regions that we presumed exhausted' - "Time". 'In all three stories, intellectual ... see all copies from £2.59! new only from £5.52! \| first editions
20 view cover	As a man grows older more books like this by Italo Svevo add to wishlist This 1898 novel is one of Svevo's comic tales about a writer down on his luck who falls in love with a whore who torments him to the point where he becomes senile at the tender age of 35. Originally titled in English EMILIO'S CARNIVAL, the novel was translated for many years as AS A MAN GROWS OLDER, the title James Joyce--Svevo's close friend- ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
21	Night Lies more books like this by Gesualo Bufalino add to wishlist In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, discussing their lives, old hopes and ambitions. The author has won the Strega Prize. see all copies from £6.88! new only from £11.73! \| first editions
22 view cover	Other people's trades more books like this by Primo Levi add to wishlist The essays in this book include some of the subjects that fascinated Primo Levi - the house he lived in all his life, butterflies and spiders, imaginary creatures dreamed up by children, Rabelais, writing a novel, returning to school at 60 and the need for fear. Throughout the book there are glimpses of long lost childhood summers, his ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £17.65! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Inland Sea: Fiction more books like this by Steven Varni add to wishlist A novel in 12 stories about an Italian-American family in California. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Joey Dee Gets Wise more books like this by Louisa Ermelino add to wishlist When Sonny Magro gets whacked in Little Italy, the only witness--a mentally impaired man--tells his friend Joey Dee, which gets him involved with crime boss Nicky Mole. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Behind the Door more books like this by Giorgio Bassani add to wishlist A novel about a young Jewish boy's corruption by an opportunistic newcomer to his high school in Ferrare, Italy. see all copies from £3.26! new only from £4.60! \| signed copies \| first editions

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	The Rage and the Pride by Oriana Fallaci see all from £5.57! new only from £6.79!
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