A novel of a young man, Saverio, who travels to the Siwa desert in search of courage and the story of his family. As he tracks his father’s memory and his own roots, the book asks what courage really means.

A journey into the desert becomes a journey back to family memory.

A poetic long-form work that moves through postwar Italy into the age of consumer culture. Fragmented scenes around Rudi accumulate into a landscape of labor, nightlife, the city, and desire.

Fragments accumulate into a portrait of postwar Italy.

A biographical non-fiction work that reconstructs Pushkin's final four months and the truth of the duel by weaving together letters, diaries, and court records. By joining fragments of evidence, it explores what the poet's death meant for Russian cultural history.

It pieces together the secret history that led to Pushkin's death.