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Reprints, novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, and biography.

Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans

Since its first publication in 1974, Blood of My Blood has become the most highly...

Made in Italy

A tough and poignant novel that tells us the uncompromising story of Nora Moratti. The...

Lovhers

This is the poetry by Nicole Brossard who has become well known as a lesbian...

Secret Transfusions

Secret Transfusions is the first dual-language annotated edition of Samuel Beckett's translations of Italian literature...

The Southern Question

Antonio Gramsci's The Southern Question remains as provocative today as it was when it was...

Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History

Eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. The lynching caused...

This fantastical novel opens with Pina, a young Sicilian woman, being seduced by the son of her father's archenemy under a heavily-laden olive tree in her family's orchard. Fate plays a cruel trick on Pina when her lover is killed and she gives birth to a half-human, half-olive son. Named Olivo Oliva, her bastard son grows up and moves to America where he becomes a prodigious killer, an obsessive artist, and eventually, keen to discover more about his ancestry.

Olivo Oliva

Philippe Poloni, David Homel
2006

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada

Tell the Oak Tree to Grow Faster: Selected Aphorisms

About Guernica

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs...

Submission Guidelines

Please note that the annual reading period for Guernica Editions and its MiroLand imprint runs from January 1 to March 31. Submissions are only accepted during this period and only as email attachments. Please note that submissions for the Guernica World Editions imprint (for non-Canadian authors) are open year round.