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The Disappearance of Signora Giulia
A delightfully Italian mystery, with undercurrent of satire, which keeps the reader guessing. Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. And the case is left in your hands. You're a born detective, but you have so many unanswered questions - how can a young, beautiful high society woman just vanish into thin air? Why does her husband - a prominent criminal lawyer and much older man - know nothing about it? And who was she really visiting during those trips to Milan? For Detective Sciancalepre, the mystery is darker and more tangled than he imagined. Shadows are lurking in the grounds behind Giulia's h...
The Bishop's Bedroom
"Piero Chiara’s novel is at once a murder mystery and a lyrical study of desire, greed, and deception. The ending is simply stunning." —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name Summer 1946. World War Two has just come to an end and there’s a yearning for renewal. A man in his thirties is sailing on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, hoping to put off the inevitable return to work. Dropping anchor in a small, fashionable port, he meets the enigmatic owner of a nearby villa who invites him home for dinner with his older wife and beautiful widowed sister-in-law. The sailor is intrigued by the elegant waterside mansion, staffed with servants and imbued with mystery, and stays in a guest...
Tamara De Lempicka
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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters
Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
A Man of Parts
As prickly as a chestnut, this little hardshelled story from the Italian countryside is full of the ribald realism which began many years ago with Boccaccio. In Luino, in the years just before Fascism when the nineteenth century drew to a long-overdue close, Emerenziano Paronzini, a dour but distinguished looking man of 45, takes up residence, eyes the rather unattractive sisterhood -- all unwed -- Tarsilla, Fortunata and Camilla, and eventually proposes to Fortunata.
Di casa in casa, la vita
Altre storie della vita di provincia, altri personaggi commoventi o comici, altre indagini nella memoria in trenta racconti mai raccolti in volume.
Vedrò Singapore?
Vedrò Singapore? apre e insieme chiude la carriera di romanziere di Piero Chiara: primo progetto narrativo di ampio respiro abbozzato fin dagli anni Cinquanta, fu infatti anche l'ultimo romanzo pubblicato, nel 1981. La domanda del titolo è quella che si pone il protagonista al momento di imbarcarsi per l'Estremo Oriente, al termine di una tormentata e picaresca vicenda che copre per intero il "memorabile" anno iniziato il 23 novembre 1932. Personaggio principale e narratore è un impiegato di basso livello, trasferito da una sede all'altra per le pressioni di un Alto Commissario Speciale, che lo perseguita a causa della sua passione per il gioco e per le donne. Lo sfondo del racconto sono cittadine friulane e istriane come Aidussina e soprattutto Cividale, paradigma della provincia italiana, i cui bizzarri abitanti assistono come il coro di una tragedia antica ai molteplici e grotteschi colpi di scena, alle peripezie romantiche e agli episodi comici che costellano la parabola del "travet".
