Author: Elsa Morante

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph 'I loved it and it had be...

A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal.  First published in Italian in 1968, ...

In this little-known classic of Italian literature, young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His moth...