“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight celebrity. Europa is P
Book One in the Marseilles TrilogyUgo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the mean streets of Marseilles, where friendship means everything. They promised to stay true to one another and swore that nothing would break their bond. But people and circumsta
"A talented French writer who draws from the deep dark well of noir."-The Washington Post Chourmo . . . the rowers in a galley. In Marseilles, you weren't just from one neighborhood, one project. You were chourmo. In the same galley, rowing! Trying to get
The men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided - should they wait for the money owed to them, or accept thier fate and look for work on another ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz's last commission and he is determined to sav
Il sole dei morenti è l'ultimo romanzo scritto da Jean-Claude Izzo prima della sua prematura scomparsa. È il suo capolavoro: una struggente esplorazione del potere distruttivo dell'amore, la storia di un uomo che cerca l'amore e non lo trova, e per ques
An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is willing to go as far as murder.
A riveting story of guilt, revenge, and justice, Massimo Carlotto's Death's Dark Abyss tells the tale of two men and the savage crime that irreversibly binds them.During a bungled robbery atempti, Raffaello Beggiato takes a young woman and her eight-year-
Un romanzo basato su fatti e personaggi assolutamente veri che racconta per la prima volta in Italia, in modo completo, documentato e rigoroso, la storia della guerra sporca delle dittatura argentina. La metodologia della 'desaparicion', i campi di concen
