My Brilliant Friend
August book club selection
italian
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Honeymoon
Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.
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Missing Person
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965.
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The Periodic Table
Primo Levi's _Periodic Table_ is a group of autobiographical episodes of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime and afterward.
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Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum is Umberto Eco's novel of a few Milanese book editors who are bored with their work. To pass the time they cook up an elaborate hoax…
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Invisible Cities
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan sensed the end of his empire…
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Numero Zero
a satirical work that explores themes of media manipulation, conspiracy theories, and the blurred line between truth and fiction.