CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL PRE-U ITALIAN MFL 2020-21 PART 1: TOPICSL’ITALIA IN GIALLOLITERATURE CAMILLERI, ANDREA: LA FORMA DELL’ACQUA The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Sellerio di Giorgianni. ISBN: 9788838910173 - £9.10 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SHAPE OF WATER Picador ISBN: 9781509850372 - £8.99 CAROFIGLIO, GIANRICO: AD OCCHI CHIUSI Lawyer Guerrieri is approached by a young woman who claims her ex-boyfriend of assault and battery. However, as the ex-boyfriend is the son of a powerful local judge, taking the case could be career suicide of Guerrieri. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Sellerio di Giorgianni. ISBN: 9788838919053 - £13.75 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - WALK IN THE DARK Bitter Lemon Press ISBN: 9781904738534 - £7.99 DE GIOVANNI, MAURIZIO: IL SENSO DEL DOLORE Set in Mussolini’s Naples of the 1930s, . Commissario Ricciardi investigates the murder of the world’s greatest tenor at the Royal Theatre of San Carlo . ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi. ISBN: 9788806213916 - £10.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE World Noir ISBN: 9781609454395 - £12.99 LA DONNA IN TEMPO DI GUERRAFILM LA CIOCIARA /TWO WOMEN (15) 1960 ITALY DE SICA, VITTORIO DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 1943 a woman and her teenage daughter travel form war torn Rome to her native village of Ciociaria. When the allies arrive they travel back to Rome and experience the horrors of war that they had hoped to escape. L’ITALIA E L’OLOCAUSTOFILM LA VITA È BELLA/LIFE IF BEAUTIFUL (PG) 1998 ITALY ROBERTO BENIGNI £19.99 Oscar winning film about a charming but bumbling Jewish waiter who must rely on his strengths to protect his family during the Second World War. LITERATURE BASSANI, GIORGIO: IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI Haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Gruppo Editoriale Mursia ISBN: 9788842517726 - £10.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS Penguin ISBN: 9780141188362 - £9.99 CARMINATI, CHIARA: FUORI FUOCO “When the war broke out, we were all happy." 13 year old Jole, say in the summer of 1914. However it will not take long for her to understand the consequences and suffering the conflict will bring. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Bompiani ISBN: 9788845272592 - £12.50 LEVI, PRIMO: SE QUESTO È UN UOMO Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi ISBN: 9788806131722 - £11.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IF THIS IS A MAN Abacus ISBN: 9780349100135 - £9.99 VIGANÒ, RENATA: L’AGNESE VA A MORIRE Wartime and Agnes and Palita live a quiet routine life, but soon the conflict breaks into their lives. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi ISBN: 9788806222178 - £10.95 VISIONI DI ROMAFILM LA DOLCE VITA (15) 1960 ITALY B/W FELLINI, FEDERICO £19.99 The story of a reporter’s encounter with the ‘sweet life’ and the unhappy people who lead it. LA GRANDE BELLEZZA/THE GREAT BEAUTY (15) 2013 ITALY SORRENTINO PAOLO £15.99 Accomplished journalist learns of the death of a former lover and is confronted with the fragility of life. ROMA (15) 1972 FELLINI, FEDERICO £15.99 Autobiographical look at Rome. IL TEATRO DI DARIO FOFO, DARIO: MISTERO BUFFO A series of brief monologues with Biblical themes ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Guanda ISBN: 9788823520202 - £18.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - PLAYS 1 Abacus ISBN: 9780413154200 - £17.99 FO, DARIO: MORTE ACCIDENTALE DI UN ANARCHICO A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi ISBN: 9788823521049 - £10.99 ENGLISH TRANSLATION PLAYS 1 Abacus ISBN: 9780413154200 - £17.99 ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780413156105 - £10.99 FO, DARIO: SOTTO PAGA! NON SI PAGA! - OUT OF PRINT AT PRESENT PART 2: TEXTSBOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI: DECAMERON (Introduction, Day 1 i, Day 2 ix, Day 3 i, Day 4 i, Day 4 v, Day 5 iv, Day 5 x, Day 6 iv, Day 6 x, Day 8 vii, Day 10 x, Conclusion) Note: The Roman numerals denote the number of the story on a respective day. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT BUR Biblioteca Univerzale Rizzoli ISBN: 9788817018562 - £12.50 ENGLISH TRANSLATION Penguin ISBN: 9780140449303 - £11.99 Wordsworth ISBN: 9781840221336- £3.99 ON DVD IL DECAMERON (18) 1970 ITALY PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99 DE CRESCENZO, LUCIANO: COSÌ PARLÒ BELLAVISTA A collection of facts and anecdotes about Naples ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Mondadori ISBN: 9788804683476 - £12.75 DE FILIPPO, EDUARDO: NAPOLI MILIONARIA! The play examines the plight of the poor and the moral corruption of the wartime black market of Naples. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi ISBN: 9788806065850 - £10.50 DELEDDA, GRAZIA: CANNE AL VENTO Set in the barren lands of Sardinia, the novel involves the themes of poverty, honor and superstition. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Mondadori ISBN: 9788804487722 - £9.25 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - REEDS IN THE WIND Italica Press ISBN: 9780934977630 - £14.99 FERRANTE, ELENA: L’AMICA GENIALE Set in an impoverished Naples of the 1950s, two young girls, Elena and Lila, form a life long friendship. Years later, Elena, now in her 60s, receives a phone call informing her of Lila's disappearance and begins to reflect on their friendship. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT E/O ISBN: 9788866320326 - £19.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - MY BRILLIANT FRIEND Europa Editions ISBN: 9781609450786 - £12.99 ON DVD L'AMICA GENIALE /MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (12) 2018 ITALY DVD - £20.99 BLU RAY - £24.99 All eight episodes of the Italian miniseries based on Elena Ferrante's novel. LEOPARDI, GIACOMO: CANTI (All’Italia (i), Il passero solitario (xi), L’infinito (xii), La sera del dì di festa (xiii), Alla luna (xiv), Alla sua donna (xviii), A Silvia (xxi), La quiete dopo la tempesta (xxiv), A se stesso (xxviii), Il tramonto della luna (xxxiii), La ginestra / Il fiore del deserto (xxxiv)) Note: The Roman numerals in brackets refer to the definitive order as given in editions rather than chronological order. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Feltrinelli ISBN: 9788807902093 - £13.50 ENGLISH TRANSLATION Penguin ISBN: 9780141193878 - £14.99 LEVI, CARLO: CRISTO SI È FERMATO A EBOLI Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Einaudi ISBN: 9788806219345 - £10.95 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI Penguin ISBN: 9780141183213 - £9.99 TABUCCHI, ANTONIO: SOSTIENE PEREIRA In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's fascist dictatorship, out of nowhere a young man arrives on an elderly widower's doorstep. Lonely and overweight, Dr Pereira lives a quiet, monotonous existence. But when the charismatic Monteiro Rossi bursts into his life, everything changes. ITALIAN LANGUAGE TEXT Feltrinelli Traveller ISBN: 9788807883040 - £10.50 ENGLISH TRANSLATION - PEREIRA MAINTAINS Canongate Books ISBN: 9781782116318 - £8.99 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST CLICK HERE and type - MAILING LIST - in the E-mail subject line. HOW TO ORDEROrders can be submitted orders by email, fax, telephone or post
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