Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. It is not an exaggeration that espresso is at the core of Italian culture and history. Millions of espresso drinkers around the world attempt to capture a special "made in Italy" feeling in th...
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Fiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother—who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in—fears he lacks commi...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. First published in Italy in 1982 and available to only a handful of scholars in the US, Boelhower's classic study IMMIGRANT AUTOBIOGRAPHY in the United States led the way in identifying a new ...
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Fiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. Marie Genovese looks out from her apartment window above the Five & Ten and wonders how she'll save the failing store she's inherited from her mother. In a historical moment overshadowed by fear, economic...
Fiction. Italian Studies. In the spirit of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan stories, PUZZLE follows a young couple during Italy's infamous period known as the "Anni di Piombo," or "Years of Lead." Sebastiano and Maria Clara meet at a 1970s rock concert, ...
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Luca Meldolesi. Translated by Michael Gilmartin. "He was ready to let himself be pervaded by an idea and to experience it by compassionately living it, so as to possess it. Then sometimes he would turn it around and tr...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. Translated by Fabio Girelli Carasi. "I have often been asked by Italians: 'Who are these Italian Americans? Why don't they speak Italian like us? Why don't they read the same books we read? Wh...
Literary Nonfiction. In this unique volume of essays, three Italian-Canadian-American scholars of the post-WWII diaspora, who among them span a wide expanse of geographic and cultural ground, reflect on the meaning of triangulated identities. What a...
Fiction. Italian American Studies. "... Ciabattari brims with brio in this fanciful, cannily humorous look at the jungles of darkest Manhattan. Twenty-one brief 'dreams' or vignettes introduce Rizzoli, a modern Everyman who tries to do his work, ret...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Mark Pietralunga. Since its first publication in 1937, ITALIANS IN AMERICA has been recognized as one of the most important studies on the Italian immigrant community in North America of i...
Fiction. Drama. Italian American Studies. "Lo Cascio's OTHELLO creates an original mixture of contemporary and timeless concerns in an original play about the impossibility of men and women to understand each other."—from the introduction