Italian literature

Book Reviews

• Gesualdo Bufalino: Night's Lies*
  - on the eve of execution, four prisoners tell tales of deceit
• Roberto Calasso: Ka**
  - a superb synthesis of Hindu mythology
• Andrea Camilleri: The Terracotta Dog
  - a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: The Great Human Diasporas*
  The History of Diversity and Evolution
• Umberto Eco: On Literature
  - an assortment of literary criticism
• Andrea Giardina: The Romans
  - a social history
• Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
  - a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
• Primo Levi: The Periodic Table**
  - stories of a chemist working with elements
• Primo Levi: The Wrench*
  - superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man
• Leonardo Sciascia: The Knight and Death*
  Three Novellas
• Antonio Tabucchi: Declares Pereira*
  - a political awakening in 1938 Portugal

See also: Italy | world literature