The Keeper of Ruins and Other Inventions

Bufalino, Gesualdo

Harvill

An old man, haunted by the imminence of death, harks back to the loves of his youth in a small Sicilian town where he was a schoolteacher. As he breathes life into his memoirs, a whole world of laughter and pain is evoked. Gesualdo Bufalino also wrote "Night's Lies".

Blind Argus or the Fables of the Memory

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Harpercollins

In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy, four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, resurrecting their pasts, lifting the veil on lives of heroic hope and sordid ambition, bringing out the best and worst in themselves.

Night's Lies

Contemporary

Harvill Pr

In this collection of twenty-odd short stories the situations vary - the reader is invited to consider Noah's ark as it first takes the ground after the Flood, and to experience a brush with Jack the Ripper in foggy Victorian London.

The Keeper of Ruins: And Other Inventions

Four men, a poet, baron, soldier, and student, spend the night before their scheduled execution, telling stories and reconsidering the loyalty to their secret leader that will soon cost them their lives

Lies of the Night

Atheneum

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (English and Italian Edition)

Marsilio Pub

The narrator describes his experiences quarentined with a group of patients awaiting death at an old sanitarium near Palermo in 1946

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library)

Collins, Harvill

Night's lies

In an island fortress-prison, four political prisoners, sentenced to death for plotting against the Bourbon monarchy, spend their last night together awaiting the guillotine, each spinning a web of deception until the shocking end. Reprint.

Literary

Tommaso is the janitor of a crumbling apartment block. Through him we get to know all the inhabitants of this teetering Italian microcosm—the pedlars, the ponces, the florid housewives, the wannabes and the has-beens. We also get to know the janitor's friend, a blind photographer.

Tomasso and the Blind Photographer

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The Keeper of Ruins and Other Inventions

Blind Argus or the Fables of the Memory

Night's Lies

The Keeper of Ruins: And Other Inventions

Lies of the Night

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (English and Italian Edition)

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library)

Night's Lies

Night's Lies

Tomasso and the Blind Photographer