Ocean Sea
by Alessandro Baricco | 
City
by Alessandro Baricco | 
The Novel of Ferrara
by Giorgio Bassani | 
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante | 
God's Mountain
by Erri De Luca | 
The Monkey's Wrench
by Primo Levi | 
Trick
by Domenico Starnone | 
One Way or Another
by Leonardo Sciascia | 
Aracoeli
by Elsa Morante | 
When We Were Romans
by Matthew Kneale | 
Inheritance
by Natalie Danford | 
Agostino
by Alberto Moravia | 
A Coin in Nine Hands
by Marguerite Yourcenar | 
Innocence
by Penelope Fitzgerald | 
The Evening of the Holiday
by Shirley Hazzard | 
Born Twice
by Giuseppe Pontiggia | 
Love in Idleness
by Amanda Craig | 
The Storyteller
by Mario Vargas Llosa | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war '?? and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk.When '?? in an unnamed place and time '?? Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill him, they fail to discover Nina, his youngest child, hidden in a hole beneath his farmhouse floor. After this carnage Tito, one of the murderers, discovers Nina's trapdoor. Enthralled by the sight of Nina's perfect innocence, he keeps quiet. By the time she has grown up, Nina's innocence will have bloomed into something else altogether, and one by one the wartime hunters will become the peacetime hunted. But not until a striking old woman calls upon a familiar old man selling newspapers in town can we know what Nina will ultimately make of her brutal legacy. From the Trade Paperback edition.