Jesus, You take over
Spiritual biography written by Grazia Ruotolo (the protagonist’s great-niece) in collaboration with journalist Luciano Regolo. Perhaps for this reason (or because of the translation), at times it can be...
Biographies
A Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary
Biography of Sister Lucia of Jesus, the last surviving of the three shepherd children who spoke with Our Lady of Fatima, written shortly after her death.
Written by the Carmelite community where she...
Dunyazad
A brief yet deeply moving work, Dunyazad reads more like an intense confession than a conventional novel. In it, May Telmissany courageously gives voice to the deepest pain of a mother who loses her...
Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy
Chiara is a young Italian woman who lives happily. Shortly after finishing college, she meets Enrico on a pilgrimage, and together they decide to start a family. Chiara was 24 years old when they got...
Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt, the widow of writer Paul Auster, experiences her mourning by remembering her life with the writer. She recounts his illness and includes biographical and autobiographical details, without...
Fly, wild swans
After the great success of Wild Swans in 1991, in which the author recounted the lives of three generations of women, beginning with her grandmother and...
A Life of Chekhov
The publication of this book in 1946, four years after the author’s death, was made possible thanks to her daughters’ efforts to preserve her manuscripts. The depth of the book is striking. It draws...
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay
A sports biography of Rafael Nadal. The book recounts the sporting career of the Mallorcan tennis player. Furthermore, as the subtitle suggests, it explores the history of the Roland Garros tournament, the...
Mozart in motion. His work and his world in pieces
A disappointing biography if one is looking to learn about the composer’s life. It is more suitable for music lovers or scholars of the Salzburg composer’s music, as it attempts to explain Mozart’s life...
Balzac: A Biography
Posthumous work, completed in its final revisions by Richard Friedenthal, editor of the complete works of Stefan Zweig.
Biography of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It portrays both the man and...