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The Penguin book of Italian short stories /
"When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader - and writer - took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and unexpected freedom. This collection brings together fort...
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United Kingdom:
Penguin books,
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Table of Contents:
- Name and tears / Elio Vittorini
- Picturesque lives / Giovanni Verga
- The siren / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Against time / Antonio Tabucchi
- Generous wine / Italo Svevo
- The long voyage / Leonardo Sciascia
- Bago / Alberto Savinio
- The hen / Umberto Saba
- The lady / Lalla Romano
- The tower / Fabrizia Ramondino
- The trap / Luigi Pirandello
- Melancholy / Cesare Pavese
- Silence / Aldo Palazzeschi
- A pair of eyeglasses / Anna Mari Ortese
- The other side of the moon / Alberto Moravia
- The ambitious ones / Elsa Morante
- Sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight and thirty seven from Centuria / Giorgio Manganelli
- Quaestio de centauris / Primo Levi
- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi
- My husband / Natalia Ginzburg
- The mother / Carlo Emilio Gadda
- A Martian in Rome / Ennio Flaiano
- The smell of death / Beppe Fenoglio
- Life as a couple / Luce D'Eramo
- The milliner / Antonio Delfini
- The hind / Grazia Deledda
- Invitation to dinner / Alba de Céspedes
- Elegy for Signora Nodier / Silvio D'Arzo
- Malpasso / Fausta Cialente
- At the station / Carlo Cassola
- The golden nut / Christina Campo
- Dialogue with a tortoise / Italo Calvino
- And yet they are knocking at your door / Dino Buzzati
- The miraculous beach, or, Prize for modesty / Massimo Bontempelli
- A geographical error / Romano Bilenchi
- The streetwalker / Luciano Bianciardi
- Miss / Anna Banti
- The baboon / Giovanni Arpino
- Barefoot / Corrado Alvaro.