Books like Giorno della civetta by Leonardo Sciascia

Interview With the Vampire: An Immortal Vampire Tells His Life Story

A young Piedmontian, Roberto de la Grive, survives a shipwreck in 1643 and finds himself on a mysterious island, writing letters that reveal the era’s political intrigue, scientific awakening, and global tensions.

Interview with the Vampire; The Queen of the Damned; Vampire Lestat: A series of vampire tales featuring Anne Rice's iconic vampire protagonist Lestat, set in 19th-century Italy and America, with an interview with the vampire character.

A story about a man who meets another woman after losing his wife, only to find he was actually used by her, leading to a thrilling investigation of the truth.

When a bus‑hopper is fatally shot in a Sicilian piazza, newcomer Detective Captain Bellodi must confront a silent Mafia network while he searches for the truth.

A Nurse in Italy: Dark Secrets and Forbidden Love

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from the author to himself that consist of no more than a few words. At the novel's center is Carlo, an oil executive who undergoes a profound personality split: Carlo 1 is a super-Machiavellian power monger; Carlo 2 lives only to satisfy his perverse and insatiable sexual desires. Carlo also experiences a sexual metamorphosis in which he becomes, at will, female. The story of Carlo is interspersed with re-visions of myth - Oedipus, Medea, the Argonauts - and of Dante's hell. The teller of this story is also dual in nature. There is the author - the external shaper of the novel - who interrupts the text to comment on its mechanics and its meaning. And there is the narrator, whose cynical and seductive perspective comes from within Petrolio's fictional world. Fragmentary, deliberately self-referential, meta-literary, schizoid, a devotional exploration of the male libido, an ode to the lust for power and the power of lust and, above all, a wrenching attempt to define the intellectual and his responsibilities, Petrolio is a postmodern masterpiece.

xiv, 295 p. ; 22 cm