There is this bend of the Tiber, for example: Porto Giordano. A tiny strip of land where an eccentric Rome opens up, the lair and territory of a tribe of rats watched over, guided and mothered by the Rat.

A psychological novel that takes us by the hand in the prisons of Sardinia and in the mind of a murderer next door.

The Resistance through the eyes of a group of young boys, in a clever debut novel.

Succesfully combining different styles and languages (from comedy to pop to splatter) Belluardo’s novel mirrors a greedy, cynical society so focused on devouring things, people and values in a continuous orgy, to become unaware of the real processes going on underneath the surface.

In a Naples harassed by fascism, the extraordinary courage of a woman who will save her beloved ones from the most terrific outcomes of war.

An intriguing mirror trick, between past and present, on women, their dependency in relationships and the fragile social safe net that does not really protect them.

Dreams, troubles and hopes for a family through the last forty years.

A love story which is at once a reflection on the potential of narrative and an investigation into the destinies of Italy and of Europe.

A poetic novel which tells the story of the encounter between the magic of the circus and the uncertain destinies of seven unfinished characters.

The journey of a man to a remote land to close his accounts with his past. A thrilling plot which reveals the talent of a secluded, maverick narrator.

A group of Jews hides on an island in Lake Trasimeno. The Germans are hunting them and their fate is in the hands of the islanders.

A lacerating, visionary book – vibrant, elegant writing. Two years after the success of La Caduta, the highly anticipated new novel from the 2013 Campiello Prize finalist.

More than 5000 copies sold, winner of Bagutta prize. The story of an influential Jewish family, from Proust’s Paris to Auschwitz camp.

A postman passionate with love letters gets into the sentimental and political plots of a little town in Calabria. A poetic and revolutionary story, a novel about how dreams can change the world.

An astonishing apocalyptic parable about the crash and fall of the Western world.

Partigiano Inverno, finalist at the Premio Calvino 2011, rewrites the Resistance after seventy years, elevating it to the status of paradigm of any shock breaking the everyday life, burning and hurting.