A best selling mystery novel in Italy followed by an equally successful title with the same hero (also to be published by BLP). Now a major television series in Italy. A court procedural, a legal thriller and an attack on racism. Fascinating detailed description of the Italian court system.

Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times)Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira’s apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism—and thi...

When Samuele Stocchino is two years old the village sage can already see a heart shaped like a wolf's head beating in his breast: the heart of a murderer. As a colonial soldier in Northern Africa, recruited from one subject land to subdue another, the sixteen-year-old Stocchino learns to kill before he has learned to love, and it is a skill he hones to perfection on the pitiless battlefields of the Corso Front in the Great War.Returning to Sardinia a hero to a pauper's welcome, he ...