a list of ten Italian novels I’d like to catch up with this year,
some of these look expensive to buy, fingers crossed for re-issues –
1.A Spiral of Mist by Michele Prisco
translated by Isabel Quigley
Chatto and Windus 1969
2.On the Make by Quintavalle Uberto
translated by Isabel Quigley
Harvill Press 1962
3.The Lost Boy by Alberto Arbasino
translated by Bernard Wall
Faber 1964
4.Tune for an Elephant by Elio Vittorini
translated by Eric Mosbacher
Weidenfied and Nicholson 1955
5.The Transfer by Silvano Ceccherini
translated by
Eyre and Spottiswoode 1966
6.The Eye and the Heart by Carlo Cocciolo
Heinemann 1960
7.Confessions of an Italian by Ippolito Nievo
translated by Frederika Randall
Penguin Classics 2014
8. The Dead Boy and The Comets by Goffredo Parise
translated by Marianne Ceconi
Farrar, Strauss and Young 1953
9.The Blue Whale by Stanislao Nievo
translated by Gaetano Rando
Guernica Editions 2000
10.The Faithful Lover by Massimo Bontempelli
translated by Estelle Gilson
Host Publications 2007