The past is the hardest place to return to. Jim Mackenzie, a half-Indian helicopter pilot, learns this the hard way when, after several years, he finds himself in a still town...
Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, senses the inevitable decline of his class after the arrival of the Garibaldins. He approves the marriage of his nephew Tancredi, who has no...
The poetic story of an orphan boy found aboard a fancy ocean liner. A strange fate accompanies him: as long as he lives, he must not leave the ship. He becomes a legendary...
The poetic story of the novella Silk takes place in the 1860s. Its protagonist is the merchant Hervé Jouncour, a seller of silkworm eggs, who goes "to the end of the world" in...