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I Terranauti (The Terranauts) by T. C. Boyle, Milan, La nave di Teseo, 2022; Un fantasma in gola (A Ghost in the Throat) by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 2022 ISBN 978-8842829652; I Netanyahu (The Netanyahus) by Joshua Cohen, Turin, Codice Edizioni, 2022 ISBN 979-1254500132; Le cinque ferite (The Five Wounds) by Kirstin Valdez ...
The Ghost is a 2007 political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, The Ghost Writer , directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan , for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay.
Maurizio de Giovanni was born in Naples in 1958; he has spent the majority of his life living and working there. In 2005 he decided to join a Porsche Italia competition reserved for giallo novelists, and that's where he came up with the character of Commissario Ricciardi, main protagonist of his first short story, “I vivi e I morti”.
Alienation is the theme in works such as Il disprezzo (Contempt or A Ghost at Noon, 1954) and La noia (The Empty Canvas) from the 1950s, despite observation from a rational-realistic perspective. Political themes are often present; an example is La Romana ( The Woman of Rome , 1947), the story of a prostitute entangled with the Fascist regime ...
Il disprezzo, known in English as Contempt or A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by Alberto Moravia that came out in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard .
In September 2016 Andrea Marcolongo published her first book, La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco [3] [4] which reached the first place in the Italian and French sales ranking. [5] The book sold 150.000 copies in Italy, [6] reaching the first position in non-fiction ranking and the seventh in the Italian general top ten in January ...
Translated into English by Oonagh Stransky, The House on Via Gemito was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024. [ 7 ] His thirteenth work of fiction, Ties , was his second to be translated into English and was awarded the Bridge Prize in 2017, [ 8 ] The Bridge Book Award project seeks to unite Italian and American cultures and ...
Benedette iene, in Francesco Antonioli (a cura di), La Bibbia dei non credenti. Protagonisti della vita italiana sfidano il Libro dei libri, Casale Monferrato, Piemme, 2002, pp. 124-127. ISBN 88-384-6504-5. Il ducato di Savoia. Amministrazione e corte di uno stato franco-italiano, 1416-1536, Collana Quadrante, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002. ISBN 88 ...