Fearing her encroaching death, an elderly woman decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love-letter and part confession, it is a bequest of advice from an old woman who acknowledges that she has always bowed...
These stories explore the historical and emotional dramas which lie beneath the consciousness and threaten to erupt into everyday life. In Monday Again, for example, the cruelty meted out to a girl is compounded by a narrative voice which refuses to ...
Susanna Tamaro’s writing has deeply affected people throughout the world. Though her voice is unique and her stories firmly rooted in her native Italy, the power of her words and her understanding of human lives are universal. In 1994 her novel Fol...
Divided into three parts -- fire, earth, and wind -- this novel follows Walter from his rural adolescence through his adult years as he leaves his known world for the chaos and complexity of Rome. Wrestling with difficult family relationships and...
INCLUDES SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED LINE DRAWINGSLittle Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover...