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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN
ItalyDescription:
"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue
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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor EN
EnglandDescription:
Book Four in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
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A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini EN
Description:
Not far from the splendour of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants from village and countryside, lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world. A new generation emerges, full of unreal hopes, wily and resourceful, brutal and vulnerable. A Violent Life, first published in Italy in 1959, is the story of that generation. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life is an uncanny fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold. It is the story of Tommaso Puzzilli, a s... continue
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Accabadora by Michela Murgia EN
Description:
The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English–language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora. When... continue
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo EN
Description:
In its first two years of production in Italy, Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.
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Acqua Alta by Isabelle Autissier DE
FranceDescription:
2021: Venedig ist von den Wassermassen eines letzten Acqua alta verschlungen worden. Guido Malegatti, einer der Überlebenden, fährt mit dem Boot durch die Ruinen, auf der Suche nach Frau und Tochter. Zwei Jahre zuvor: Angesichts des drohenden Meeresspiegelanstiegs bahnt sich der Konflikt innerhalb der Familie an. Guido als Wirtschaftsrat schwört auf den Tourismus und die Segnungen der Technik. Seine Frau Maria Alba schwelgt in der vergangenen Pracht einer Stadt am Rande des Zusammenbruchs. Und ihre 17-jährige Tochter Léa wird in dem Versuch, die geliebt Stadt zu retten, zur Gegnerin ihres Vate... continue
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Adua by Igiaba Scego EN
Description:
A searing novel about a young immigrant woman's dream of freedom in Rome and the legacies of her African past.