Books like The Story of the Lost Child
The final Neapolitan novel: Elena and Lila's lifelong friendship reaches its devastating conclusion as Naples, Italy, and their own identities are transformed.
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The Days of Abandonment
A woman in Turin left by her husband with two small children and a dog spirals through one sweltering summer into rage, obsession, and near-total dissolution.
Still Born
Two Mexico City friends make opposite choices about motherhood and find their lives entwined anyway around an ailing newborn.
Bridge of Sighs
Lou Lynch, sixty, who has spent his whole life in the upstate New York town of Thomaston running his family's corner stores, writes his life story as he and his wife plan a trip to Venice to see his boyhood friend Bobby Marconi, now a famous painter.
The Door
A Hungarian writer hires a fiercely private old housekeeper who never lets anyone through her front door, and their decades-long bond turns into love, dependence, and betrayal.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
Dream Count
During the pandemic, four African women in America and Nigeria, a travel writer, a lawyer, a banker and a Guinean housekeeper whose life is upended by an assault, look back on love, friendship and the lives they hoped for.
Iza's Ballad
After her father's death, a well-meaning Budapest doctor brings her widowed mother to live in her modern flat and slowly dissolves the old woman's place in the world.
The Eighth Life
Six generations of a Georgian family unfold across a century of Soviet violence, chocolate, and love, addressed by a great-aunt to her niece.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
Reeds in the Wind
In a Sardinian village, three ageing sisters of a ruined noble family and their devoted servant Efix, who carries a secret, wait for a nephew from the mainland who might save them.
Stay With Me
Yejide and Akin, a happily married couple in 1980s Nigeria, still have no children after four years, and Akin's family brings home a second wife.
The Leopard
In 1860, as Garibaldi's troops land in Sicily, Prince Fabrizio of Salina watches the aristocratic world he was born into give way to the new Italy, and arranges his nephew's marriage to the daughter of a rich upstart.