The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual.

Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's...

Die Demokratie muss weg. Und die Alternative steht schon bereit. Michela Murgias virtuose, hochaktuelle Satire verunsichert, provoziert und wirft die Frage auf: Wie faschistisch sind Sie?