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Antony Shugaar (trans.)

The Athenian Women

By Alessandro Barbero - By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - Published 2018

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Alessandro Barbero’s The Athenian Women is a complex tale highlighting the class struggles of women subjugated under a patriarchal system and of ...Read Review

Glass Souls

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Maurizio de Giovanni - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary Mystery/Crime

In 1930s Italy, the lovely Bianca, Countess of Roccaspina, pays a visit to Commissario Ricciardi. She pleads with him to find the murderer ...Read Review

Not All Bastards Are From Vienna

By Andrea Molesini - By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Patrick Creagh (trans.) - Published 2015

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Literary Saga

This restrained, beautifully written debut novel looks at war from the microcosm of a single location, that of a villa in the small ...Read Review

The Bottom of Your Heart: Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Maurizio de Giovanni - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Maurizio de Giovanni’s brooding Commissario Luigi Ricciardi is back in the seventh installment of this terrific mystery series set in 1930s Naples, ...Read Review

Between Enemies

By Andrea Molesini - By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Patrick Creagh (trans.) - Published 2015

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Literary

November 1917. Austrian soldiers requisition the estate of the aristocratic Spada family, near Venice. The family and their servants, as well as the occupying ...Read Review

Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commisario Ricciardi

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Maurizio de Giovanni - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Set in 1930s Naples, Italy, Everyone in Their Place features a remarkable protagonist in the shape of Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi. Ricciardi is ...Read Review

The Nun

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Simonetta Agnello Hornby - Published 2012

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Literary

In 1839, young Agata has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre, and he with her. Unfortunately, Agata’s parents disapprove of the affair, ...Read Review