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In the novel Faith and Beauty (1840), Niccolò Tommaseo follows the love and marriage of Giovanni and Maria, Italian immigrants in France. After turbulent pasts, they meet in Quimper, fall in love, get married, and struggle with temptations.
The third novel in the masterfully written Neapolitan tetralogy by one of the most important authors of our time – Elena Ferrante. The story is as intimate as it is lavish and comprehensive… Ferrante spares no one, and this work is a tour de force.
Dino, a wealthy Roman painter, suffers from a deep existential boredom - an inability to feel reality. He leaves his mother's villa, moves into a studio and enters into an obsessive relationship with the young Cecilia, which brings him jealousy and crisis
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
Snake's Nest (2008) is part of the series about Inspector Salvo Montalban. Set in the fictional Sicilian town of Vigàtu, the novel combines criminal suspense, psychological depth, and Camilleri's signature humor with a critique of Sicily's social problems
The Lying Life of Adults (2019), a stand-alone novel by Elena Ferrante, takes us to Naples in the 1990s through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Giovanna Trade, a bright, middle-class girl whose world falls apart with the discovery of her family's lies.