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The Lily Theatre (1997) [Buy Direct]
by Lulu Wang
Translated by Hester Velmans
Original title: Het lelietheater

After Midnight [Buy Direct]
by Irmgard Keun
Translated by A Bell
Original title: Nach Mitternacht

The Wedding [Buy Direct]
by Yann Queffélec
Translated by L Coverdale
Original title: Noces barbares

The Moustache [Buy Direct]
by Emmanuel Carrere
Translated by L Goodman
Original title: La Moustache
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Among Women Only [Buy Direct]
by Cesare Pavese
Translated by D.D. Paige
Original title: Tra donne sole
In a postwar Turin portrayed as a value-less wasteland of the rich, a hard-bitten youngish woman listlessly socialises with the local gilded youth. There’s a circuit of parties,  (more...)
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The Moon and the Bonfire [Buy Direct]
by Cesare Pavese
Translated by Louise Sinclair
Original title: La luna e il falò
Set in an impoverished corner of the Piedmontese countryside, this is the Pastorale of a writer who spent most of his adult life in industrial Turin.  (more...)

Devil in the Hills [Buy Direct]
by Cesare Pavese
Translated by D.D. Paige
Original title: Diavolo sulle colline, La bella estate
In The Devil in the Hills Pavese contrasts the city (post-war Turin) with a countryside still partly inhabited by ‘real folks’ but already becoming a playground for the Northern Italian idle rich who both fascinated and appalled him. As in Among Women Only,  (more...)



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