Celestino Cuccoli adopts four orphaned boys and showers them with affection and comfort, while the distortions inside the family and the pressure of the times slowly come into view. An unexpected late-life romance gives the novel its bittersweet aftertaste.

A lonely man pours boundless love into four boys.

Set in Sicily, this novel follows a lonely narrator as she rethreads the memories of the women who precede her - grandmother, mother, and herself - and recounts a family history of secrets, desire, and betrayal through a blend of fact and invention. Its lush storytelling and layered family saga make it one of the defining debut novels of postwar Italian literature.

A voice that moves between fact and invention gathers three generations of women into a single, expansive family saga.

Sibilla Aleramo's Selva d'amore is a poetry collection that moves through love, images of nature, and female interiority with a lyrical, self-reflective tone. It turns private feeling into a wider meditation on freedom and lived experience.

A poetry collection that quietly illuminates female interiority through images of love and nature.