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Accordion Crimesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0786208015 (0-7862-0801-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accordion Crimes'Book summary:Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels (Postcards and The Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North America. In Accordion Crimes she ranges much further afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a truck in Florida in 1996. In the intervening century it passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners and their kin: Abelardo Relampago, who dies from the bite of a poisonous spider; Dolor Gagnon, decapitated by his own chain saw; Silvano, cut down in the jungles of Venezuela by an Indian's arrow. [via]
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The Almond Pickerby Alastair McEwen, Simonetta Agnello HornbyISBN 0374182345 (0-374-18234-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Almond Pickerby Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Alastair McEwenISBN 0312425066 (0-312-42506-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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And No Birds Sangby Farley MowatISBN 0770422373 (0-7704-2237-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And No Birds Sang'Book summary:War is hell, the adage goes. "So awful," Farley Mowat adds in this memoir of World War II frontline service, "that through three decades I kept the deeper agonies of it wrapped in the cotton-wool of protective forgetfulness, and would have been well content to leave them buried so forever." Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailness (though, he writes, he had been living off the Saskatchewan countryside and was in fine shape), Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The baby-faced second lieutenant quickly earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, especially when, as he gleefully recounts, he bent army rules to suit such exigencies of the field as securing a stout drink and finding warm, if non-regulation, clothing. Somewhat happy-go-lucky at the outset, Mowat and his colleagues soon adopted a darker view of the war after engaging elite German forces in the mountains of Sicily.
Ever the naturalist, Mowat recalls that he learned to identify German weapons by their sounds, "a discovery which excited me almost as much as if I had stumbled on a batch of new bird species." But the war was no game, and Mowat's memoir grows ever more sombre as friends and compatriots fall, one by one, to enemy fire and illness. His book, a graceful work of personal history, does his fellow warriors honour even as it protests the madness and destruction of war. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicilyby Dino Buzzati, Frances LobbISBN 1590170768 (1-59017-076-8)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily'Book summary:Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits. [via]
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Between Salt Water And Holy Water: A History of Southern Italyby Tommaso AstaritaISBN 0393328678 (0-393-32867-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Salt Water And Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy'Book summary:"Lucid, evocative and richly detailed."Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover
Both the Romans and the Greeks were attracted to the dramatically beautiful coasts and fertile plains of the region later known as "The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies." In fact, all myriad influences that shaped modern civilization in the Mediterranean come together in Southern Italy and Sicily. The world's first secular university was founded in Naples. Many of the elements of Italian culture as we now know it in the rest of the worldfrom comic opera to pizzawere born in the South. Art and music flourished there, as did progressive ideas about education, tolerance, and civic administration.
Native Neopolitan and distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita gives us a history both erudite and full of personalityfrom the freethinking, cosmopolitan King Frederick who conferred with Jewish and Muslim philosophers (and dared to meet with the Sultan) to the fisherman Masaniello who inspired artists and revolutionaries across Europe. In the medieval South, Jews, Muslims, and Greek and Latin Christians could practice their religions, speak their languages, and live in mostly peaceful cohabitation. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Naples was on par with Paris, one of the largest and most cultured cities in Europe. During the Enlightenment, southern Italy captured the European imagination, and many people traveled far and wide to enjoy southern Italy's ancient ruins, beautiful landscapes, sweet music, and magnificent art, marveling at the lively temperament of the southern population. The drama and beauty of the region inspired visitors to claim that one had to "see Naples, and then die." Yet negative images of the Italian South's poverty, violence, superstition and nearness to Africa long fueled stereotypes of what was and was not acceptably "European." Goethe noted that he had gladly studied in Rome, but in Naples he wanted "only to live," for "Naples is a Paradise: everyone lives in a state of intoxicated self-forgetfulness, myself included.
From the Normans and Angevins through Spanish and Bourbon rule to the unification of Italy in 1860 and the subsequent emigration of vast numbers of Southern Italians, Between Salt Water and Holy Water captures the rich, dynamic past of a vibrant land. [via]More editions of Between Salt Water And Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy:
A' Ciascuno Il Suoby SciasciaISBN 884591514X (88-459-1514-X)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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Conversations in Sicilyby Elio Vittorini, Alane Salierno MasonISBN 0811214559 (0-8112-1455-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 8466617434 (84-666-1743-4)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:A searing evocation of the Mafia underworld and an instant classic, this novel introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that would be passed from father to son. With its exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition, and its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, this is the definitive gangster novel.[via]More editions of El Padrino / The Godfather:
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Equal Dangerby Leonardo Sciascia, Adrienne W. Foulke, Carlin RomanoISBN 1590170628 (1-59017-062-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Danger'Book summary:District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolutionor anything? Who is doing what to whom?
Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extremeand grippingdepiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel. [via]More editions of Equal Danger:
Excursion To Tindariby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 014303460X (0-14-303460-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frederick II: A Medival Emperorby David AbulafiaISBN 071399004X (0-7139-9004-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Garibaldi and the Thousand : May 1860by George Macaulay TrevelyanISBN 1842124749 (1-84212-474-9)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Gli Zii Di Siciliaby SciasciaISBN 8806347519 (88-06-34751-9)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0451167716 (0-451-16771-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0399103422 (0-399-10342-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Godfather: ISBN 0449234088 (0-449-23408-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Godfather: ISBN 0451208447 (0-451-20844-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0816138753 (0-8161-3875-3)
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A House in Sicilyby Daphne PhelpsISBN 0786707941 (0-7867-0794-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A House in Sicily'Book summary:"I had always been a bit of a maverick," writes Daphne Phelps, looking back on why--at the age of 34--when she unexpectedly inherited a grand house in Taormina, Sicily, she gave up her profession in London, left behind her ordered life with its museums, theater, family and friends, and embarked on a life-long adventure. Reading her intriguing memoir, one is glad Phelps chose the unconventional path: after inheriting her uncle's Casa Cuseni with its terraced gardens and staggering views of Mt. Etna, she struggles to make ends meet, but instead of selling the estate, opens its doors to a steady stream of paying guests and visitors--many of them artists, writers, and intellectuals.
Inheriting an estate in Italy in 1947 isn't quite like winning the lottery, it turns out. In short sketches, Phelps reminisces about stepping into small-town Sicilian life, war-weary, speaking very little Italian, and even more scandalous, being unmarried. With her no-nonsense British humor, she recounts the typical conversation with men, young and old:
"Are you married?"
"No."
"When are you going to get married?"
"Chi lo sa--who knows?'"
And then, "Why aren't you married?"Settling into daily life at Casa Cuseni, Phelps dons boots and digs into the garden, rolls up her sleeves and cleans the baroque carvings over the salon fireplace, and learns to manage the property and its full-time staff. As she points out in the book's conclusion, for more than 50 years now, house-related problems have kept her on her toes--those, and her amazingly devoted servant, cook, and even the local Mafia don, whom she all describes with more than a little condescension in a series of deft portraits. While Phelps's cynicism can be a bit hard to take when she's serving up her servants, she is, perhaps, at her best when telling stories about her famous houseguests: Bertrand Russell, Henry Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, even Roald Dahl. Some were charming, some were horrid. But the visitors came from 26 countries, with friends introducing their friends. Around the dining room table and in this volume Phelps has mixed people who in "normal life would be unlikely to meet." It is this Sicilian menagerie--anchored to a singular place and time, and viewed through a British prism--that makes Phelps's life story so worth the telling. --Kimberly Brown [via]
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The Last Leopardby David GilmourISBN 1860462219 (1-86046-221-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Di Lampedusaby David GilmourISBN 0704325640 (0-7043-2564-0)
Hardcover, Quartet Books
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The Leopardby Archibald Colquhoun, Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 067940757X (0-679-40757-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard'Book summary:The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option. [via]
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The Leopardby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Archibald ColquhounISBN 0679731210 (0-679-73121-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard'Book summary:In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: "Some huge irrational disaster is in the making." All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses the ruin of the class and inheritance that already disgust him. His favorite nephew, Tancredi, proffers the paradox, "If we want things to stay as they are, they will have to change," but Don Fabrizio would rather take refuge in skepticism or astronomy, "the sublime routine of the skies."
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard, though he had had it in his mind for 25 years. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable. [via]
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The Lion and the Leopardby Mary Ellen JohnsonISBN 0517557274 (0-517-55727-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Many Beautiful Thingsby Vincent Schiavelli, Santo LipaniISBN 0743215281 (0-7432-1528-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Beautiful Things'Book summary:As a popular character actor, Vincent Schiavelli's face is easily recognizable. But you'll look at this actor--and serious cook--in a new light once you lose yourself in Many Beautiful Things, a compilation of personal stories, with more than 75 recipes, about his visits to a small hilltop town in Sicily called Polizzi Generosa, the birthplace of his grandparents. Schiavelli is embraced as a long-lost by the Polizzani, and they readily share their local legends, town gossip, and the trials and tribulations of living in a place far removed from the rest of Italy. As a result, when he introduces us to the quirky characters who populate the village he does it with a rare sensitivity, and real respect. You'll cry for Turiddu Lavanca, the lovesick forager; laugh with Za Momo, a friend's grandmother; and wish you could taste something, anything, made by Pino Agliata, Schiavelli's favorite pastry chef.
In Polizzi, life revolves around the table, and as Schiavelli tells us, "culinary expertise is divided into ... those who cook and eat, and those who don't cook but still eat heartily." As Schiavelli weaves his tales, slipping in mouth-watering descriptions of dishes like Potato Gratin with Bay Leaves, Zucchini Flowers Stuffed with Bechamel, and Pumpkin Caponata, and sweets such as Almond Love Bites and Almond Nougat, you'll find yourself skipping to the end of each chapter to make sure the recipes are there. Take this book to read on vacation, and then find a place for it in your kitchen. --Leora Y. Bloom [via]
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Midnight in Sicilyby Peter RobbISBN 1860464653 (1-86046-465-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in Sicily'Book summary:A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. [via]
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel, and LA Cosa Nostraby Peter RobbISBN 0375704582 (0-375-70458-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in Sicily : On Art, Feed, History, Travel, and la Cosa Nostra'Book summary:[via]A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily.
South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.More editions of Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel, and LA Cosa Nostra:
Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief/Large Printby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0816159173 (0-8161-5917-3)
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The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194by John Julius NorwichISBN 0140152121 (0-14-015212-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194'Book summary:This omnibus volume is made up of John Julius Norwich's first two works of history published 20 years ago - "The Normans in the South" and "The Kingdom in the Sun". The books tell the story of the dazzling Norman kingdom of Sicily founded in the 11th century by an enterprising band of adventurers from Normandy under Robert Guiscard. The state they founded was outstanding in medieval civilization. [via]
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journalby Mary Taylor Simeti, Robin DesserISBN 0679764143 (0-679-76414-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journalby Mary T. SimetiISBN 0394549880 (0-394-54988-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Foodby Mary T. SimetiISBN 0880016108 (0-88001-610-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food'Book summary:Pomp and Sustenance is a celebration of one of the oldest, most varied, and best-loved cuisines of Europe, at once frugal and extravagant, robustly simple yet often handsomely ornate. For twenty-five centuries, the people of Sicily have been creating what is perhaps the basic cuisine of Europe on the beautiful island in the heart of the Meditteranean.
Beginning with the oldest and most elementary components in the Sicilian diet, Mary Taylor Simeti surveys the bounty of the Sicilian table and Sicilian history. Simeti provides authentic recipes as well as evocations of the dishes' origins: from the simple glories of vine, olive, and wheat to the culinary innovations of Arab and Norman invaders; from the plain but mouth-watering dishes prepared by peasants in the Middle Ages to the ritual luxuries of Sicily's aritocracy; from the succulent delicacies made in monasteries and covents to the street-food pleasures that have become favorites all over the world.
With more than 100 photographs and illustrations, this comprehensive volume is a book to cook from, a book to read, and a book to treasure as a testament to one of the finest cuisines in the world.
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Pomp and Sustenance : Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Foodby Mary Taylor SimetiISBN 0394568508 (0-394-56850-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Princes Under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicilyby Raleigh TrevelyanISBN 1842124358 (1-84212-435-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Rough Guide Sicilyby Robert AndrewsISBN 1858288746 (1-85828-874-6)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Rounding the Markby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 014303748X (0-14-303748-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rounding the Mark'Book summary:[via]The earthy and urbane Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano casts his spell on more and more fans with each new mystery from Andrea Camilleri.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths form the central mystery of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalbano deep into a secret world of illicit trafficking in human lives, and the investigation will test the limits of his physical, psychological, and moral endurance. Disillusioned and no longer believing in the institution he serves, will he withdraw or delve deeper into his work?
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Ruby in Her Navelby Barry UnsworthISBN 0385509634 (0-385-50963-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Shape of Waterby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142002399 (0-14-200239-9)
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The Shape of Waterby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0670030929 (0-670-03092-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shape of Water'Book summary:Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has become an international sensation whose adventures have been translated from Italian into eight languages, from Dutch to Japanese. The Shape of Water is the first book in this sly, witty, engaging series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.
The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn, sirocco-swept site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavor. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendor Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Lupanello, one of the local movers and shakers-apparently deceased in flagrante-at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes-refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case-even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop.
Picking his way nimbly through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta fire-power, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.
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The Sicilianby Mario PuzoISBN 0345441702 (0-345-44170-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sicilian'Book summary:Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader left him in The Godfather. But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who is the unofficial ruler of northwestern Sicily. In his fight "to make Sicilians free people," the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giuliano of the 1940's, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, chief of the Sicilian Mafia, and the policemen who has been tracking Guiliano each offer to help Corleone find the elusive Robin Hood, betrayal seems inevitable. Mario Puzo has created a sequel to The Godfather that is every bit as compelling and dramatic. But The Sicilian is a distinct literary achievement in its historical inspiration and its vivid portrait of Sicilian peasant life. [via]
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Sicilian Carouselby Lawrence DurrellISBN 1569247838 (1-56924-783-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sicilian Carousel'Book summary:Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on the country and, naturally enough for the islomaniac Durrell, it focuses on one of Italy's islands. Sicilian Carousel came relatively late in Durrell's career, and is based around a slightly fictionalized bus tour of the island. [via]
Sicilian Odysseyby Francine ProseISBN 0792265351 (0-7922-6535-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sicilian Unclesby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 0856357820 (0-85635-782-0)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sicilian Uncles'Book summary:The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconstancy. The four novellas in Sicilian Uncles (1958) political thrillers of a kind - are the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions about ideology and history are lost in mirth, in suffering, and innocence is abandoned. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1948. These occasions and their consequences are registered in the lives of Sciascia's wonderfully drawn characters. Each has voice, wit, and a private history which open out onto the wider circumstances of his time, and hint towards the later work of Sciascia. [via]
Sicily Before History: An Archaeological Survey from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Ageby Robert LeightonISBN 0801485851 (0-8014-8585-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Sicily: The Rough Guideby Robert Andrews, Jules Brown, Rough Guides (Firm)ISBN 1858281784 (1-85828-178-4)
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Silent Duchessby Darcia MariainiISBN 155861222X (1-55861-222-X)
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Silent Duchessby Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood, Darcia MariainiISBN 1558611940 (1-55861-194-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Duchess'Book summary:Dacia Maraini is something of a national treasure in Italy. The author of more than 50 books, a director of stage and screen, and an outspoken feminist, Maraini has never been afraid of controversy. The Silent Duchess won prestigious awards in Italy upon its publication there in 1990, and has since been translated into 14 languages. It tells the story of Marianna Ucria, an 18th-century noblewoman who is both deaf and mute following a mysterious childhood trauma. Though outwardly Marianna's life follows the same trajectory as most women's of her class and time--an arranged marriage and endless childbearing--her inner life is quite unique. Within the silent world she occupies, Marianna pursues a vigorous life of the mind; in fact, silence becomes a weapon she wields to defend her deepest, truest self against society's suppression of women's creativity and will. From the first, horrifying images of a child's hanging, through Marianna's forced marriage to her elderly uncle, and finally to her recollection of the trauma that scarred her, The Silent Duchess takes the reader on a remarkable journey through the mores and manners of 18th-century Sicily and into the mind of its enigmatic, courageous heroine. [via]
The Smell Of The Nightby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0143036203 (0-14-303620-3)
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The Snack Thiefby Andrea CamilleriISBN 0142003492 (0-14-200349-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snack Thief'Book summary:[via]In the third book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new case. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's lifeas well as Montalbano'sis on the line...
Sometimes the Soulby Gioia TimpanelliISBN 0375707220 (0-375-70722-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sometimes the Soul'Book summary:For many years Gioia Timpanelli has crisscrossed the country (and the globe) collecting and then telling stories. In a world that is becoming increasingly dependent on information coming from the computer, television, and satellite dish, Timpanelli continues to communicate universal themes the old-fashioned way--through the oral tradition. In her first formal foray into the written word, Sometimes the Soul, she draws on the stories with which she has mesmerized audiences for years and crafts two fine novellas that explore within a traditional framework the lives of two highly untraditional women.
"Si cunta e si recunta"--"It is told and retold," begin the old Sicilian folktales. Both of Timpanelli's stories take place in Sicily and weave Sicilian fairy tales into the fabric of her modern-day sensibility. In "A Knot of Tears" the heroine, Costanza, has locked herself away from the world in an old villa in Palermo to give herself time to pick up the pieces of a life that has been shattered. Her beauty and her mystery touch the hearts of two very different men who glimpse her through an open window: a young man of wealth and his worldly lawyer. They make a bet as to who will speak to Costanza first. The youth consults an actress who promises to arrange a meeting; the lawyer bribes a sailor to insinuate himself into the house to find out more about the lady--a feat the sailor achieves by allowing his parrot, Nello, to fly through an open window.
"Si cunta e si recunta" the parrot repeats time and again. When the sailor comes to reclaim him, he is invited into the house where he satisfies both the parrot's and the lady's desire for stories. As the sailor tells three tales of a young princess with the magical power to heal, Costanza gradually begins to heal as well: "In a year of Good Fridays, a small resurrection of spirit was stirring. Well, as usual, the old tales had uncanny truths in them, and Costanza had often seen this princess rescuer in the everyday world, not a worldly princess, but one of the heart."
In "Rusina, Not Quite in Love," Timpanelli takes a more straightforward approach, retelling Beauty and the Beast, but even here the author's interest is less in the old fairy tale itself than in the purpose of storytelling: "It is true," said the Uncle. "These old stories are like the parables, they tell us what we know but have strangely forgotten, until we hear it again and we say, 'Oh! Yes. Of course."
Like one character's tale of an old woman who went out without her shawl, Timpanelli's stories are "simple but not so simple"; in telling them, she is advocating fiction's power to shape and transform our lives. As with all the best old stories, the two novellas in Sometimes the Soul are entertaining, charmingly told, and leave you with something to think about when they're done. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicilyby Teri MaggioISBN 0738203424 (0-7382-0342-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicilyby Theresa MaggioISBN 0738208000 (0-7382-0800-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of Mattanza, a remarkable collection of intertwined stories about the unknown hill towns and villages of Sicily. . In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting as her targets the smallest dots with the most appealing names. Her travels take her to the small towns surrounding Mt. Etna, the volcanic islands of the Aeolian Sea, and the charming villages nestled in the Madonie Mountains. Whether she's writing about the unique pleasures of Sicilian street food, the damage wrought by molten lava, the ancient traditions of Sicilian bagpipers, or the religious processions that consume entire villages for days on end, Maggio succeeds in transporting readers to a wholly unfamiliar world, where almonds grow like weeds and the water tastes of stone. In the stark but evocative prose that is her hallmark, Maggio enters the hearts and heads of Sicilians, unlocking the secrets of a tantalizingly complex culture. Although she makes frequent forays to villages near and far, she always returns to Santa Margherita, where she researches her family tree in the municipio, goes on adventures with her cousin Nella, and traces the town's past in history and literature. A beautifully wrought meditation on time and place, The Stone Boudoir will be treasured by all who love fine travel writing. [via]
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The Terra-Cotta Dogby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0142002631 (0-14-200263-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Terra-Cotta Dog'Book summary:Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes.
The Terra-cotta Dog opens with the inspector's mysterious tête-à-tête with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, in a secret grotto, he finds a harrowing scene: two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II bombardment.
From sly comedy at the expense of his fellow policemen to personal soul searching that helps him enter the minds of those he must investigate, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness and imagination coalesce into a unique, unfailing appeal. AUTHORBIO: Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including his Montalbano series, which has been adapted for Italian television and translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.
Stephen Sartarelli lives in upstate New York. [via]-
The Terra-Cotta Dogby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142004723 (0-14-200472-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Terra-Cotta Dog'Book summary:[via]Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable.
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To Each His Ownby Leonardo Sciascia, W. S. Di Piero, Adrienne FoulkeISBN 0940322528 (0-940322-52-8)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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Travels With a Medieval Queenby Mary Taylor SimetiISBN 0374278784 (0-374-27878-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Voice of the Violinby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142004456 (0-14-200445-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voice of the Violin'Book summary:[via]Inspector Montalbano, praised as a delightful creation (USA Today), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbanos gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victims friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.
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Voice of the Violinby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0670031437 (0-670-03143-7)
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In this latest novel, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immedi-ately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder. [via]More editions of Voice of the Violin:
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Travellerby Frances MayesISBN 0767910060 (0-7679-1006-0)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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La Forma Dell'acquaby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838910170 (88-389-1017-0)
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La Gita a Tindariby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838915741 (88-389-1574-1)
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Il Cane Di Terracottaby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838912262 (88-389-1226-2)
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Il Ladro Di Merendineby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838913196 (88-389-1319-6)
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La Mennularaby Simonetta Agnello HornbyISBN 8807016192 (88-07-01619-2)
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L'odore Della Notteby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838917299 (88-389-1729-9)
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La Voce Del Violinoby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838914052 (88-389-1405-2)
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El Gatopardoby Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 9500305003 (950-03-0500-3)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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La Mennulara /The Almond Pickerby Simonetta Agnello HornbyISBN 8483102471 (84-8310-247-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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El Padrinoby Mario PuzoISBN 8466604359 (84-666-0435-9)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino'Book summary:More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing evocation of the Mafia underworld, this novel introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that would be passed on from father to son. The novel stands out due to its exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, this is the definitive gangster novel.[via]More editions of El Padrino:
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El Padrino / The Godfatherby Mario Puzo, Angel ArnauISBN 8466304479 (84-663-0447-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Padrino / The Godfather'Book summary:Vito Corleone is the most respected Don of New York. He is merciless with his rivals, but also intelligent, astute and faithful to honor and friendship. His life and businesses, as well as those of his son and heir, make up the storyline of this masterpiece. With the publication of The Godfather, for the first time the Mafia was portrayed from the inside. Later, Puzo himself would write the scripts for the famous trilogy of Francis Ford Coppola.
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Vito Corleone es el Don más respetado de Nueva York, ciudad a la que llegó como emigrante desde su Sicilia natal a los doce años. Don Corleone es implacable con sus rivales, pero es también un hombre inteligente, astuto y fiel a los principios del honor y la amistad. La vida y negocios de Don Corleone, así como los de su hijo y heredero, conforman el eje de esta obra maestra.
La publicación de El Padrino en 1969 supuso una convulsión en el mundo literario, pues por primera vez la Mafia aparecía novelada desde su interior; presentada como una compleja contrasociedad con una cultura, unas interrelaciones y unas jerarquías comúnmente aceptadas. Posteriormente, el propio Puzo escribiría los guiones de la famosa trilogía de películas de Francis Ford Coppola. [via]
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