Edizioni e/o
Publishers of Elena Ferrante and many other Italian and international authors: Ahmet Altan, Massimo Carlotto, Sacha Naspini. A literary (but never pretentious) list of classics and new authors.
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Overview
Edizioni E/O and Europa Editions are two independent publishers of quality fiction. The companies were founded respectively in 1979 and 2005 by Sandro Ferri and Sandra Ozzola Ferri. The idea behind Edizioni E/O and Europa is one of cultural exchange rooted in bringing high quality translated fiction into Italian bookshops, but also bringing the best Italian contemporary literature can offer to the American and British market - and the world in general. Our catalog is eclectic, reflecting the founders’ belief that dialogue between nations and cultures is of vital importance and that this exchange is facilitated by literature chosen not only for its ability to entertain and fascinate but also to inform and enlighten.
Notable successes at E/O and Europa include: Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which spent almost a year on the New York Times Bestseller list and the IndieBound bestseller list; Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, including My Brilliant Friend, a New York Times bestseller; Massimo Carlotto's Mediterranean noir series, soon to be a tv show for the Italian network RAI; Ahmet Altan's Ottoman quartet, powerful critique of an authoritarian regime with echoes of contemporary Turkey.
Never tired of research, Edizioni E/O is building a list of fresh, strong, experimental new voices in Italian contemporary literature, with an attention to novels with a strong sense of place, sophisticated plots and attentive character development: the works of Sacha Naspini, Fabio Bartolomei, Massimo Cuomo are already known internationally as a new wave of what made Edizioni E/O and Europa Editions one of the most adventurous and succesful publishers of the last ten years.
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Our FBF HOTLIST:
NIVES by Sacha Naspini (English translation available)
Published by E/O in September 2020: Our Souls at Night meets Lacci by Domenico Starnone in a theatrical phonecall that lasts for the entire novel, with twists and turns that change the characters' lives for ever.
Rights sold to US/UK (Europa); Profil (Croatia)
Option publishers: China Beijing Creative Art Times France Actes Sud Greece Patakis Korea Minumsa Turkey Cumartesi
+ his previous novel, OSSIGENO (English translation available)
Poetic yet disturbing investigation into the darkest corners of human nature, Ossigeno has been compared to the likes of Paul Auster and Stephen King. It is a story of dark roots and curious, eerie minds. Of secrets buried so deep that become seeds for madness. Of masks worn so tightly they become your own skin. But what’s underneath, no matter how hard you try, is still there.
TETTAGNA by Patrizia De Luca (debut)
A dark fairy tale in which magic, curses and secret rituals get lost in the routine and economy of daily life, with its delicate relationships. Three generations of women, delving into the profound meaning of friendship and sisterhood, surviving guilt, loss and love. Their paths meet in the ever ambiguous chain of daughters who don’t want to look like their mothers – and mothers who want to create through their daughters the best version of themselves.
In the outskirts of Naples there is a small town called Tettiano, where only women are born, and they are born with a curse. Their bodies keep secrets of power and murder: their breasts have the ability to make a man hopelessly devoted to them – to the point that their life depends on being loved back: when a Tettiano woman falls out of love with her man, the man is doomed to die.
CASA E’ DOVE FA MALE by Massimo Cuomo
One of our most beloved Italian authors, Cuomo comes back with a dark, sophisticated short novel built around a simple concept: what if walls could talk?
A building in the middle of the Venetian hinterland, a place of abandonment and regrets. Eight flats keeping secrets and vices: each flat seems to reflect a different capital sin. The characters seem doomed to go round in circles in their own obsessions, spying on each other, envying each other, ever finding themselves surprisingly human – but what hides in the eighth flat?
NIENTE PER LEI by Laura Mancini (English sample available)
An extraordinary debut, the story of a woman who fights through life like a gladiator in post‑WWII Rome. Laura Mancini’s writing is transparent and imaginative, with echoes of Elsa Morante. Reading Niente per lei is like watching history go by outside a window: it’s impossible not to see in it a blurred reflection of ourselves. The protagonist, Tullia, grows up in the most challenging circumstances, but Rome, a character of its own, takes her by the hand through life, with its light and its darkness.
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