Massimo Carlotto, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60945-114-1
Recovering criminal Giorgio Pellegrini (who also appears in Carlotto's The Goodbye Kiss) can't seem to avoid trouble. In addition to owning and operating La Nena—a refined restaurant in Italy's Veneto region frequented by power players and other...
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Massimo Carlotto, trans. from the Italian by Christopher Woodall. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-180-6
Brooding, sexual, and connected to Italy’s socio-political climate, Carlotto’s (The Goodbye Kiss) seventh book published in English falls into the current world of crime fiction. Like Gone Girl, or Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book is interested
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Massimo Carlotto, Author, Marco Videtta, Author, Antony Shugaar, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa $15 (222p) ISBN 978-1-933372-91-4
Northeast Italy’s industrial pollution provides the backdrop for Carlotto (The Goodbye Kiss
) and screenwriter Videtta’s outstanding fable of greed, corruption and moral abandonment. Filled with echoes of Dante’s Inferno
, the book
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Massimo Carlotto, Author, Lawrence Venuti, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. Europa $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-933372-18-1
Carlotto (The Goodbye Kiss
), who served time for a murder he didn't commit before becoming a writer, has crafted a subtle and disturbing tale of the effects of violence on its survivors. Wine salesman Silvano Contin's unremarkable but happy
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Massimo Carlotto, Author, Lawrence Venuti, Translator Europa Editions $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-933372-05-1
Hailed as the master of the Mediterranean noir, Carlotto (The Columbian Mule) misfires in this disjointed, pulpy tale of carnage and crime. Taking a break from his acclaimed Alligator detective series, the Italian writer introduces us to Giorgio...
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Massimo Carlotto, Author, Antony Shugaar, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa $14.95 (162p) ISBN 978-1-933372-25-9
Billed as a novel, this less than compelling account by one of Italy's top authors of crime fiction focuses on the six years he spent as a fugitive from Italian justice for a murder he claims he didn't commit. After an Italian court upheld...
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Massimo Carlotto, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar, Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-933372-80-8
In this lean, taut crime novel from Italian author Carlotto (The Fugitive), a burglary at the University of Padua sets off a series of related crimes that entangle ex-con turned PI Marco Buratti (aka "the Alligator") and his two partners. Buratti...
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Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Andrea Camilleri, Author, Massimo Carlotto, Author Bitter Lemon Press $14.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-904738-26-8
As De Cataldo, an appellate judge, points out in his pithy preface, corruption is a theme shared by all nine stories in this first U.S. anthology of Italian noir. The dark farce, ""You Are My Treasure Chest"" by Niccolo Ammaniti and Antonio Manzini,
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Massimo Carlotto, trans. from the Italian by Will Schutt. World Noir, $17 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-60945-569-9
In Carlotto’s gripping sixth noir featuring PI Marco Buratti to be published in English (after 2016’s For All the Gold in the World), Padua, Italy, restaurateur-turned-crook Giorgio Pellegrini wants Buratti, a former blues singer who’s trying to put
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