Jhumpa Lahiri\"s landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy\"s vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries....

This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little more advanced and the translations slightly less literal....

Lampi d\'umanita e d\'amore nella torva, violenta Milano del 1944. La stagione piu dura della Resistenza in uno dei migliori romanzi del dopoguerra, una delle pagine piu alte della nostra letteratura civile....