It's 1948: postwar Rome is giddy and chaotic. Dante Omero Sabat, a successful writer and intellectual, is attending yet another film industry soiree at Tullio Merlini's apartment off the Via del Cors
It’s 1948, and postwar Rome is giddy and chaotic. Poet Dante Sabat is attending yet another film industry soirée at Tullio Merlini’s apartment off the Via del Corso. Disaffected and
Jenny McPhee's critically acclaimed debut, The Center of Things, was hailed by O, The Oprah Magazine as "a smart novel of love, lust, and life's miraculous randomness." The New York Times Book Review
A perverse and delicious tell-all view of the Soviet elite in the 1920s. Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball, which might
"As for Naples, today I feel drawn above all by Anna Maria Ortese. . . . If I managed again to write about this city, I would try to craft a text that explores the direction indicated there."—Elena Fe
Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy’s great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: “The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.
