- Location(s): Bogota
- Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
A constellation of short stories illustrates the complex, interrelated lives of women in and around Bogotá, Colombia. In six subtly connected vignettes, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from every level...
- Location(s): Jordan, Amman
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and destruction of an abusive family life. But now, later in life, something...
- Location(s): Mexico City
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir thriller about a daydreaming secretary and a lonely enforcer – and the missing woman they are both seeking. 1970s Mexico City: while student protests and...
- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Inspector Aurelio Zen has a problem: the impossible murder of an eccentric billionaire, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo’s top-security Sardinian fortress. Officials in a high government ministry want someone – anyone – to blame, and they...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1933
It is the summer of 1933. Set against a backdrop of the sparkling Venetian lagoon, young and naïve Irma Lietzen, the pretty and indulged daughter of a Budapest businessman, is being taken to see the world by her parents....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Novella, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scottish art historian Livy arrives in Venice for a short break before picking up a cruise. The last person she expects to meet is Sebastian, the handsome half Italian, half Scottish guy she first met and fell for at...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to...
- Location(s): Bordeaux
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Gilles Principaux walks into Maître Susane’s law office seeking representation for his wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried. Gilles’s wife is charged with drowning their three children and the media are circling...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Built on an inverted forest, paved with a tortoiseshell of boulders, Venice is a maze of tiny alleys, bridges and squares. Tiziano Scarpa wanders through the city, recounting the customs and secrets that only Venetians know. With everything from...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): from 4th Century
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