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Mario Fortunato, for years one of the most controversial protagonists of Italian public life, currently the controversial director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London, published his first novel The First Sky in 1990.
Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.
The novel is an important representative of verismo, Italian realism, and depicts the lives of people from the south of Italy, especially the conflicts between the poor peasantry and the decaying aristocracy.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
In the Decameron, ten young people fleeing the plague tell stories about love, fate and ingenuity. The adapted version of Ljerka Car Matutinović brings selected novellas, adapted to school, with an emphasis on humor, morality and Renaissance spirit.
Milena Agus is an award-winning Italian writer. Tupa bol is a novel that brought her international fame, and it was also made into a movie directed by Nicole Garcia and starring Marion Cotillard.