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Christopher Banks’ life changes over night when shortly after his father’s disappearance his mother goes missing, too. In early twentieth...

“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly,” is the brutal opening line of Elena Ferrante’s most...

L’Isle des Cheavliers is a tropical paradise where the rich American candy manufacturer Valerian Street has chosen to retire with his...

The family Gifty remembers from early childhood is a family of four, that quickly became a family of three and way too soon was cut into...

Moll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...

Frederic Henry, known simply as “tenente” by most, is an American lieutenant fighting with the Italian Army in World War I. He meets the...

Desiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...

The social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...

Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...

Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...

Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...

The pain of growing up is the main character in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Woods. Toru Watanabe finds himself at a crossways, having to...

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

I have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."

English version below Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus è ambientato in un piccolo paese della Sardegna contadina, dimenticata e isolata....

English version below Scherzetto di Domenico Starnone è la storia di un incontro di quattro giorni tra un nonno scontroso e suo nipote di...

Nina is 32, a successful food writer working on her third book, finally owns property in London – even though it is a bit shabby and has...

Imagine you had the opportunity to try on different lives – parallel (or perpendicular) to the one you lead. Who and where would you be,...