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Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth

Napoleon and Lord Byron - this is an epic historical novel that tells the remarkable and inseparable stories of one man's life and the history of Italy's unification

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nine years after the death of its author

Cousins - Aurora Venturini queer people in the outerCousins is the jewel in Venturini's oeuvre mischievous and stylish, vital and mysterious and completely original. It is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina. Neighbourhood mythologies, family, female sexuality, vengeance, and social mobility through art are explored and scrutinised in the voice of an unforgettable protagonist, Yuna, who stares wildly at the world in which she is compelled to live; a