In this award-winning Italian novel, an unusual stranger convinces Gianni Orzan that his vision of his deceased father as a distant, cruel Fascist is in fact untrue and that instead his father had been a double agent for the KGB....
On the shores of the Mediterranean, exhausted from an afternoon of surfing, Pietro Paladini is shaken out of his stupor by a distant noise. "Over there!" he cries to his brother, Carlo, sunning beside him. "Over there!" So begins the adventure tha...
The #1 international sensation from a master of European literature -- winner of Italy’s Premio Strega -- a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of...