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Italy is also doing well in books. Books in all areas. From books with Italian recipes to travel guides and from books about departures to Italy to Italy thrillers. Below you will find a selection of the books we have read and reviewed. You too can submit your review of an Italian book or a book with an Italian theme.
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Lies and Sorcery – Elsa Morante
From the Publisher: In this 3-generation family novel, Elisa, a young southern Italian woman, reveals her origins through the fairy tales and lies her relatives told themselves and each other. Based on letters she left behind, she reconstructs how her grandparents got to know each other and how her parents, after difficult amorous […] More
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17 literary Italian writers to feminize your bookcase
A while back, someone on social media complained that we all read so many male writers. I looked at my bookcase and realized she's right. About 80% of the books on my shelf are by a man. People from the literary world are (now) also aware of this. For example, there are […] More
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PAX: War and Peace in the Golden Age of Rome - Tom Holland
Pax is the last part of Tom Holland's trilogy about the Roman Empire, preceded by Rubicon and Dynasty. Pax is readable as a stand-alone book and is perhaps the most interesting book in the triptych, as it sketches the period of the powerful empire at its peak. Historian Tom Holland (1968) is the much […] More
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Flowers of stone – Ilaria Tuti
Publisher Cargo sent me the book Bloemen van Steen by Ilaria Tuti. It is about women in the Italian Alps during the First World War. Italy then fought Austria, high in the mountains. These women, the portatrici, contributed to the battle by climbing the mountains with provisions, ammunition, and with the […] More
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The Mother – Marco Lugli
Anyone who enjoys reading police novels knows, in addition to the names of Dutch writers, those from Scandinavian, English and American crime literature. The Southern European and especially the Italian crime novel, on the other hand, is much less known in the Netherlands. Even a celebrity like the writer Andrea Camilleri who died in 2019 with more than 20 titles with the […] More
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