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S Hood

Translations by S Hood

by Dino Buzzati
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Il deserto dei Tartari

This is the story of a young officer, Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo, who is sent on his first commission to Fort Bastiani, a desert outpost which is supposedly a vital strategic buffer against enemy attack. (more...)

Appearances [Buy Direct]

by Gianni Celati
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Quattro novelle sulle apparenze

Like his other translated book Voices From the Plains, Celati’s Appearances speaks of the flat North Italian plain and so is set far from the Tuscan idyll of cypresses and dark Signorine sighing in shuttered bedrooms of picture-book Italy. (more...)

The Way Back [Buy Direct]

by Enrico Palandri
Translated by S Hood
Original title: La via del ritorno

A moving, relevant and very European book which, as its title suggests, is about a person trying to link up moments of a past scattered by history. The past in question is that of a young man growing up in the late 1960s in a hyper-politicised Italy. (more...)

Seminar on Youth [Buy Direct]

by Aldo Busi
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Seminario sulla gioventù

‘My career is to become ‘Me’, I can no longer be content with anything less,’ writes Aldo Busi. In a sense, he has achieved this aim and become a twentieth-century agent provocateur, in the tradition of Sade and Nietzsche. (more...)

Sodomies in Eleven Point [Buy Direct]

by Aldo Busi
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Sodomie in corpo ll

A Time to Kill [Buy Direct]

by Ennio Flaiano
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Tempo di uccidere

Just after the second world war, while other Italian novelists were focusing ‘neo-realistically’ on recent events, Flaiano decided to cast his gaze further back to another war. (more...)

The Holiday

by Dacia Maraini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: La vacanza

Letters, 1940-45

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Lettere

Lutheran Letters [Buy Direct]

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Lettere luterane

A Dream of Something

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by S Hood
Original title: Il sogno di una cosa

The ‘dream’ is communism, with which Pasolini, as an artist, a genuine, freethinking radical and practising homosexual, had a very difficult relationship. The book returns to his youth in the peasant world of Friuli in North-East Italy. (more...)

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