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A Perfect Mother

A Perfect Mother
  • Author(s): Katri Skala
  • Location(s): Trieste, Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a visit to Trieste in Northern Italy to research his long lost great-grandfather, Jacob meets Charlotte and Jane, and the three are forced to confront their individual and shared histories. Their sense of themselves is challenged and they...

New Finnish Grammar

New Finnish Grammar
  • Author(s): Diego MArani
  • Location(s): Helsinki, Trieste
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Post WW2

After a badly wounded sailor with amnesia is discovered washed up on the quay in Trieste after the Second World War, he’s taken back to Helsinki by a Finnish doctor in an attempt to rebuild his identity. Together they...

Colpo di Lama

Colpo di Lama
  • Author(s): Mauro Covacich
  • Location(s): Pordenone
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): contemporary

Un noir ambientato nel nord-est, un ritratto spietato della provincia italiana e insieme una intensa storia di amore, politica, gelosia. La confessione di un uomo in lotta con i suoi fantasmi, e del suo imprevedibile riscatto. L’architetto Fabbretto non...

Flashpoint Trieste

Flashpoint Trieste
  • Author(s): Christian Jennings
  • Location(s): Trieste
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1945

In the last days of World War II, Allied armies in Italy race to beat Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav forces to the strategically vital Adriatic port of Trieste. The ancient city is now a major flashpoint in the new Cold...

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Trieste
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her...

Zeno’s Conscience

Zeno’s Conscience
  • Author(s): Italo Svevo
  • Location(s): Trieste
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s-Early 1900s

This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his...

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