Italo Calvino produced a finely-curated collection of folktales from all over Italy, providing an interesting look at the types of stories told for untold centuries by the common people.
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Teru rated Ninth Building: 4 stars
Ninth Building by Jeremy Tiang, Zou Jingzhi
A fascinating collection of vignettes based on the author’s life in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Revisiting his experiences as …
Teru rated The wedding of Zein: 4 stars
Teru rated In search of lost books: 4 stars
In search of lost books by Giorgio Van Straten
"They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, …
Teru rated Vision of the World: 4 stars
Galatea by Madeline Miller
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the …
R. U. R. by Karel Čapek
"In 1920 Čapek wrote what was to become his most famous work, the play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)', a meditation …
Teru rated Killer in the Rain: 3 stars
Teru rated Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: 4 stars
Teru rated Flowers of Buffoonery: 4 stars
Teru rated The Iraqi Christ: 3 stars
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim, Ḥasan Balāsim
This collection of stories explores the chaos of post-invasion Baghdad. A soldier with the ability to predict the future finds …
Teru rated Neapolitan chronicles: 3 stars
Neapolitan chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese
A riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy's most vibrant and …
Teru reviewed Italian folktales by Italo Calvino
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of …
