Morally complex, stunningly written and brimming with imagination and empathy, this story is set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944. Censored by the Communists after the war, the novel was firs... read more
A love affair and its aftermath, set in the closing years of the GDR. The girl is young, the man significantly older; the alteration in their love finds a parallel in the oppression of the r... read more
The French-Lebanese writer - no stranger to complicated ethnicities or religious groups - has set this novel in a small Albanian community in the mountains of southern Italy. Often comic, so... read more
The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days and there are several interested parties who would gladly see her resignation. The first in a new series by ... read more
A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.
Sidestepping the incipient Algerian War of Independence, a young Algerian Jew leaves Paris for a lakeside town in the French Alps. Years later he is haunted by this seemingly idyllic summer.... read more
A young farm lad falls asleep in a boat and drifts down the river: a week of liberated, pastoral bliss ensues. First published in 1945, this is the first new translation since the 1950s. By ... read more
Another of Ginzburg's lambent, ironic novellas: this time about a spoilt boy who grows into a feckless youth. Both he and his parents are blinded by unrealistic hopes, while his sister (the ... read more
A snakes-and-ladders novella about the misplaced confidence of a bossy widow, whose aspirations to a life of refinement and social elevation bring about her downfall. Ginzburg, as ever, is l... read more
Louis XV's astronomer sails the seas to observe the transit of Venus; two and half centuries later his telescope draws a man to a woman. A new novel by the author of other, gently off-beat r... read more
First translation of his novel set in Naples in the shadow of WW2, about a railway clerk, thwarted in his artistic ambitions, and his long-suffering family. Published in Italian 20 years ago... read more
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more