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Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commisario Ricciardi
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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 Story of a New Name
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This is a sequel to My Brilliant Friend, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. The first book followed friends Elena Greco and ...Read Review
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
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Set in a small Welsh town in 1924, Jones’ novel meanders through, as the title indicates, the thoughts and happenings of a young man ...Read Review
A Long Way to Verona
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Author Jane Gardam (Last Friends, 2013) passes up Verona, except metaphorically, to take readers into the mind and heart of a precocious 13-year-old living ...Read Review
Last Train to Paris
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In hindsight, we know that no sane person, Jewish or otherwise, would try to ride it out in pre-war Paris and Berlin. But ...Read Review
The Dream Maker
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The Dream Maker follows the Renaissance adventures of Jacques Coeur, the man who played the role of Argentier to King Charles VII of ...Read Review
The Mystery of Rio
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What defines a city, the narrator tells us, is “the history of its crimes,” and, with that introduction, he proceeds to tell the ...Read Review
Saving Mozart: The Diary of Otto J. Steiner
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Raphaël Jerusalmy, a Sorbonne graduate and formerly of Israeli Military Intelligence, invokes Anne Frank in his first novel. Like Frank’s diary, ...Read Review
Bound in Venice
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Moveable type may have been invented in Germany, but the Renaissance-era business of producing and selling books belonged purely to Venice. A political ...Read Review
The Last Banquet
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Jean-Marie d’Aumout’s sharply distinctive and intelligent voice narrates his life story spanning 18th-century France, from desperate poverty to the viciousness of ...Read Review
