Italian Family Fiction

Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes: Her son suffers in World War I. Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs.

Pressato dagli editori, Fëdor Dostoevskij scrisse "Il giocatore" in poche settimane 'per necessità'...

“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ave Maria must decide between old love and new adventures in this enthralling second novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series “Heartwarming . . . Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama.”—The Dallas Morning News Eight...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman ...

To unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series “Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi...

"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self—woman, artist, daughter—is filtered and known." —Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the...

From the beloved, award-winning author of the culture-changing hits Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends comes her most powerful and page-turning novel yet: the tale of a mother and daughter traveling together after the collapse of a marriage and the dissolution of their traditional...

Mia Tang si aspetta un anno davvero grandioso: i suoi genitori sono diventati proprietari del Motel Calivista, di cui lei gestisce la reception con la sua migliore amica Lupe, e finalmente la sua scrittura sta facendo progressi. Eppure le cose non sembrano andare nel verso giusto. Ma se c’è qualcuno che non si lascia scoraggiare, quella è Mia Tang!

Between a breakup and a burned-down restaurant, there’s nothing left in New York for Kit Roth except the ashes of her success. Needing distance and distraction, she agrees to work for her best friend’s pasta-making nonna in the Italian countryside. But instead of providing a quiet sabbatical to eat up time while her kitchen is rebuilt, the small town of Manciano keeps pulling Kit into its rituals and rhythms. And before long, it shows her everything she’s been missing. Simpler cooking, community…and Nico Ruspoli, an olive oil producer with his own scorched past.

It's the summer before senior year of high school. It's supposed to be one of the biggest summers of her life, but Pippa is headed to an art program she has no interest in. The one saving grace is that it's in Italy. And when the opportunity strikes, she decides to ditch the program and travel around Italy accomplishing her own list of goals - things like swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, eating a whole pizza in one sitting… and falling in love with an Italian boy!

Un'aggressione violenta a Granada, e Luz in una notte perde tutto. Unico, misterioso lascito della madre: una scatola bianca con un logo a forma di labirinto, una lettera di presentazione fasulla e un biglietto per Venezia. È così che la ragazza, sedici anni e muta per scelta, si ritrova a lavorare per Mariano Fortuny, l'alchimista delle stoffe. Nel suo palazzo di campo San Beneto, già si stampano con tecniche segrete gli scialli knossos, ambiti dalla buona società di tutta Europa, ma il suo genio instancabile è ossessionato dalla creazione di un abito senza tempo.

Everything I've done, everything I will do, there will be no regret. The world is a vicious place for a woman. It's even crueler to the daughter of the Ceann na Conairte - discarded, married off, left powerless. But I am no ordinary daughter of the mafia. Unlike every other mafia family, my mother was Melody Callahan, Bloody Mel, the Don of the Italian Mafia, and the Don didn't raise some precious mafia princess. Bone by bone she broke me first, so no one else could - and bone by bone, I pieced myself back together.

Seira Lewis ha tutto: bellezza, popolarità, ricchezza. Cresciuta nel mondo dorato della moda, con un padre stilista di fama internazionale e una vita costellata di privilegi, è sempre stata al centro dell'attenzione. Ma dietro l'aria snob e le foto patinate si nasconde una solitudine profonda che nessun regalo costoso è mai riuscito a cancellare: il vuoto lasciato dalla morte della madre. Così, quando suo padre decide di risposarsi con un'altra donna, Seira si ribella. Tra scandali, provocazioni e gossip, è pronta a tutto pur di mandare all'aria quel matrimonio.

After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once. At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family. He gave up his life in Barcelona to help his mother Agata with the ailing business, and is frustrated with Ursula’s interference – and she in turn is less than impressed with his attitude. As they spend more time together, though, they begin to see each other in a different light.

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one. Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartfelt novel of the power of love across three generations of an Italian-American family, from the author of the Big Stone Gap series “[An] epic of small-town life . . . A personal saga of American history and a romance woven together with warmth and good...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER Ave Maria starts a new chapter in this wise, powerful, and humorous novel, the fourth book in the beloved Big Stone Gap series “[Adriana Trigiani is] one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.”—USA Today Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One small Italian American town in America gets the makeover it never expected in this “eccentric, unpredictable, entertaining” (The Boston Globe) novel from the author of the beloved Big Stone Gap series “An artfully designed tale [with] characters so...

Tiger vive in un paesino dell'Arizona, con sua madre June. Ha sedici anni e naviga tra le acque inquiete dell'adolescenza: un'unica amica, abiti bizzarri che sua madre raccoglie per strada, suona la batteria senza saperlo fare, si vergogna del suo corpo. Spesso si sente come un insetto intrappolato in un barattolo di vetro. June, ansiosa e iperprotettiva, si arrabatta vendendo marmellate ai turisti e guidando il bibliobus della contea. Sono sempre state solo loro due, una "macchina ben oliata, carina e profumata". Ma in un giorno di maggio pieno di luce arriva la telefonata che le stravolge la vita.