'A BOOK TO GET LOST IN' Paolo Giordano, bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers | 'LIKE BEING SWEPT AWAY BY A POWERFUL CURRENT' Fabio Geda, bestselling author of In The Sea There Are Crocodiles | 'ONE OF THE BEST ITALIAN NOVELS OF 2016' Alessandro Baricco, bestselling author of Silk   |   'ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, INTENSE AND ORIGINAL BOOKS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN MY LIFE' Huffington Post ItalyBoth a coming-of-age story and an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, La Vita Felice is set near the woods of a small town in Northern Italy during one long hot summer. Elia is sixteen and slowly discovering love and sex thanks to the arrival of a much older woman in the small community of Ponte, the beautiful, damaged Anna. At the same time his father, Ettore, is slowly descending into madness: having been let go from his job in the local factory, he spends his days planning his revenge, shutting himself away in the garage and writing letters to expose a conspiracy of which he believes he is a victim. That is, until the night that changes everything: the tiny community of Ponte - already scarred by the unsolved murder of a little boy - is turned upside down by the abduction of a girl, who climbed into a van and then vanished in the middle of the woods...Translated from Italian by Alex Valente.

Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer

Elena Varvello

Two Roads

'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop 'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent 'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel' The Times In the August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods... I was sixteen. He had been gone a long time already, but that was it - not even a year after he lost his job and that boy disappeared - that was when everything broke. 1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy. An unbearably hot summer like many others. Elia Furenti is sixteen, living an unremarkable life of moderate unhappiness, until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel. Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind. A young boy is murdered. And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods... Translated by Alex Valente | Winner of an English PEN Award

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Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer

Can You Hear Me EXPORT

La luce perfetta del giorno