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Recommended books (37)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. 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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Accabadora by Michela Murgia EN

Rating: 4.5     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
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
Recommended: 06 Oct 2022

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Artemisia

Artemisia by Anna Banti EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.
Recommended: 13 Aug 2023

3.

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Temple Rome has variant printings.
Recommended: 01 Nov 2022

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Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco DE

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Daß er in den Mauern der prächtigen Benediktinerabtei an den Hängen des Apennin das Echo eines verschollenen Lachens hören würde, das hell und klassisch herüberklingt aus der Antike, damit hat der englische Franziskanermönch William von Baskerville nicht gerechnet. Zusammen mit Adson von Melk, seinem etwas tumben, jugendlichen Adlatus, ist er in einer höchst delikaten politischen Mission unterwegs. Doch in den sieben Tagen ihres Aufenthalts werden die beiden mit kriminellen Ereignissen und drastischen Versuchungen konfrontiert: Ein Mönch ist im Schweineblutbottich ertrunken, ein anderer aus de... continue

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Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.
Recommended: 06 Oct 2022

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I, Francis by Carlo Carretto EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Seeks to present the life and teaching of St Francis of Assisi in the form of an imaginary autobiography. At the same time, Carretto takes the liberty of having Francis address the problems of today, a world deeply committed to atheism, but on the brink of radical faith.
Recommended: 08 Nov 2018

7.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver EN

Rating: 5     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino’s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book’s central character. Based on a witty analogy between the reader’s desire to finish the story and the lover’s desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book—IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of course—are constantly and comically frustrated. ... continue
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Recommended: 09 Apr 2022

8.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino EN

Rating: 4     79 Votes
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
Recommended: 09 Apr 2022

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La variante di Lüneburg

La variante di Lüneburg by Paolo Maurensig PT

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Med tråde tilbage til tiden før 2. verdenskrig fortælles om to jævnaldrende skakgenier, en jøde og en arier, som gennem skakspillet får afgørende indflydelse på hinandens skæbne
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Recommended: 15 May 2023

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Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
First published by Calvino--this long-suppressed novel of a city under deluge shows a darker Naples, on the verge of collapse
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Recommended: 28 Jan 2018


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