Six Memos for the Next Millennium, by Italo Calvino
Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award ____________ JACKET COPY At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he […] Read more ...
Translated Prose
Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (children’s edition)
Illustrated by Fulvio Testa ____________ JACKET COPY Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that […] Read more ...
Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi
Introduction by Umberto Eco Afterword by Rebecca West ____________ JACKET COPY Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the […] Read more ...
Skylark Farm, by Antonia Arslan
Finalist, L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Longlist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ____________ JACKET COPY A beautiful, wrenching debut chronicling the life of a family struggling for […] Read more ...
The Zürau Aphorisms, by Kafka (& Calasso)
Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann; edited & with an introduction & afterword (translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock) by Roberto Calasso ____________ JACKET COPY Franz Kafka spent […] Read more ...
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco
Winner, Lewis Galantière Translation Award Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award Finalist, National Translation Award ____________ JACKET COPY International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco’s illustrated novel The Mysterious Flame […] Read more ...
“The Gorge,” by Umberto Eco
My translation of Eco’s story from the Feb. 27, 2005 issue of the New Yorker ____________ DESCRIPTION “The Gorge” is a gripping narrative of a clash in Fascist-era Italy between […] Read more ...
K., by Roberto Calasso
____________ JACKET COPY From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest—a virtuoso […] Read more ...