Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but t...

The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review)At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence―an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink―created by a ...

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriageThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale―a plunge into the chilly wate...

Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century's best Italian novelists. Valentino and Sagittarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg’s most celebrated works: tales of love, hope, an...