“ Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. ” ― Roy T. Bennett
Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute sat
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in mod
Vis & Ramin is one of the world's great love stories. it was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalen
Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi
One of Ginzburg's finest novels, 'Voices in the Evening'('Le Voci della sera') was first published in its original Italian in 1961.From Amazon:In this elegant novel, a young unmarried woman conveys the tragedies, loves, and social entanglements of a villa
La famiglia è distrutta, i personaggi sono dispersi, divisi dall'incomunicabilita e destinati alla solitudine, Michele, il figlio, e lontano rispetto alla madre che gli scrive, ma non solo fisicamente, anzi principalmente nelle idee, nelle esigenze, nei
Natalia Ginzburg (All Our Yesterdays). This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the Allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety
