It was 2005, when Tommaso and Sante Avagliano gave life to Marlin Editore, the publishing house whose name pays tribute to the mythical swordfish that Hemingway loved to fish off Cuba.
The passion for history and the interest in preserving the memory of events and characters that have left their mark, push Tommaso and Sante Avagliano to focus their attention on fiction inspired by the historical local and non-local past and mehistorical non-fiction, addressing to an audience that loves reading good stories and is also interested in knowing the historical-social context in which past events took place.
TITLES
TWO HUNDRED STORMY DAYS (Duecento Giorni di Tempesta)
Genre:
Literary & General
Author:
Simona Moraci
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An intriguing love triangle among Sonia, Stefano and Andrea in a Sicilian seaside town in the hands of crime. All three are teachers in a school where the pupils' violent refusal of any rule and discipline dominates.
THE ABSENT'S PLACE
Genre:
Literary & General
Author:
Francesco Puccio
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Shortlisted for the Premio Costadamalfilibri 2021
What if the place that has always been ours, that place next to the one we love, would end up being taken by someone else?
Absence hovers on each page of this book like a fog that gradually clears, disappearing at the end, timed by the writing of a subtlety becoming to fragile things.
A Life's Words
DAILY ALPHABET
Genre:
Biography & Memoirs
Author:
Dacia Maraini
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Sharing Maraini's innermost thoughts and soul motions, this book gives food to thought.
THE AMERICAN
Genre:
Literary & General
Author:
Giuseppe Foscari
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Shortlisted at the Costadamalfilibri 2020 Award
A novel that deals with the burning issue of return emigration
SARACEN BLACK
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Author:
Alessandro Luciano
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A famous abbey at the source of the Volturno, an unscrupulous bishop, a bloodthirsty Saracen horde, a real event -the Arab sack of S. Vincenzo al Volturno in 881-, make the reader breathe an air of monastic spirituality soon overcome by the climate of tension that gripped central-southern Italy in the 9th century.
THE CASTRATO'S SONG
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Author:
Giovanna Mozzillo
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In a magical and disturbing Baroque Naples, two strong and rebellious women conquer their right to love at a very high price.
This novel tells the story of a double, if troubled, conquest of awareness.
