Product Description: The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by Italian soldiers from the Nazis, who killed the rest of her Yugoslav family...read more

Product Description: Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans...read more

Product Description: «La adolescencia de Miriàm/Maria finaliza de una hora a otra. Un anuncio le pone un hijo en el regazo. Aqui tenemos la historia de una joven, obrera de la divinidad, narrada por ella misma. Aqui tenemos el amor desmesurado de Iosef por la esposa prometida y entregada a algo muy distinto...read more

Product Description: Every day, Fran ois-Marie Banier leaves home with his camera and no preconceived notions, just an interest in what the world looks like that morning. Surveying the street from his moped, he focuses on faces and figures bearing the marks of a life with the power to touch his viewers' emotions--a street cleaner with the demeanor of a heroic mythological warrior, lonely figures out for a stroll, passers-by, couples--all have lived through trials at which we can only guess...read more

Working through painful past memories by tending his garden in Italy and reading travel books, a man on the run from Argentina's Dirty War learns about love from a woman of the world and comes to understand the nature of gratitude from an African day laborer. Original.

In 1963 Naples, a thirteen-year-old boy recalls a summer of discovery and awakening in his secret diary, as he describes his odyssey from boy to adolescent, his relationship with Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him, his job sweeping floors in Master Errico's carpentry workshop, and his relationship with Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee from the Holocaust. Original.

Product Description: Tre anni una siepe, tre siepi un cane, tre cani un cavallo, tre cavalli un uomo.Se questa è la durata assegnata, qui si narra il corso dei primi due cavalli della vita di un uomo. Partito da ragazzo per amore in Argentina, si butta nella furiosa guerra clandestina contro la dittatura quando gli ammazzano la sposa...read more

Summer holiday on an island off the coast of Naples provides the setting for this lyrical novel, which chronicles the relationship between an Italian boy and a German Jewish girl in the aftermath of World War II.