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Guernica has published many fiction and nonfiction books which deal in one way or another with the pleasurable understanding of different cultures. Do not expect to find stereotypical images here. Only fine literature.


Inventor of the Horse, The

Campanile, Achille and Francesco Loriggio
The Inventor of the Horse Plays included in this collection: The Big Bun, The Inventor of the Horse, and War. Campanile's plays combine the visual slapstick of silent cinema with the zany humor of the Marx Brothers and the nonsensical dialogues of Ionesco; the result is a funniness quite unique in this century, laughter as spontaneous and as visceral and direct as it is subtle and clever. The works translated here were written in the 1920s and the early 1930s,...

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Isabelle's Notebooks
Chaput, Sylvie, Peter Vranckx and Daniel Sloate
Island of the Nightingales
Edwards, Caterina

Pasquale Verdicchio Pasquale Verdicchio teaches literature and film in the department of literature at the University of California-San Diego. As a poet, translator, and essayist, he has published translations of Pasolini, Merini, Caproni, Porta, and Gramsci. He is the author of Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures and the poetry collection The House Is Past.