Books from Italy
158 popular italian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Italy.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I EN
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St. Gregory deals with the great responsibility of the episcopal office and its onerous nature. +
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Pecore nere : racconti by Gabriella Kuruvilla IT
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A Roma la gente corre sempre, a Mogadiscio la gente non corre mai. Io sono una via di mezzo tra Roma e Mogadiscio: cammino a passo sostenuto. -- 4ème de couverture.
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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico EN
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A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature. "One of Europe’s most talented young writers, Latronico has written the great Berlin novel we’ve all been waiting for." —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker staff journalist Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned th... continue
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Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio EN
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Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against e... continue
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Povȩsti de seară pentru fete rebele : 100 de viȩti de femei extraordinare by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo EN
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A fost odată… o prințesă? Ei bine, nu! A fost odată o fetiță care voia să ajungă pe Marte. A fost o alta care a devenit cea mai bună tenismenă din lume, dar și o alta matematician și filosof. De la Elisabeta I la Malala Yousafzai, de la Amelia Earhart la Frida Kahlo, de la Marie Curie la Coco Chanel, 100 de femei extraordinare sunt portretizate în această carte de către 60 de ilustratoare din toată lumea. Regine, inventatoare, pictorițe, scriitoare, partizane, femei astronaut sau prim-ministru… modele de curaj, de perseverență și de generozitate pentru toți aceia care vor s... continue
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El autor presentaba la edición italiana de este libro, que tuvo un éxito extraordinario, con estas palabras: ésta no es una novela. Ni siquiera es un cuento. Esta es una historia. Empieza con un hombre que atraviesa el mundo, y acaba con un lago que perma
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Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli EN
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Soon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, Separate Rooms is a masterpiece of Italian literature, and a heartbreaking portrait of love, grief, and the daily realities of being a gay man in 1980s Europe. Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover. So, he condemns himself to wandering the earth instead, moving cities every few weeks in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead. He travels through Europe where past and present o... continue
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli EN
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These seven 'short lessons' guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under one hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. Not since Richard F... continue