Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized autobiography, depicting life in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, the first in a series of novels that follow the fortunes of a Neapolitan nobleman, the narrator, born around the turn of the century. A NY Times review notes that this has "a remarkable sense of period. The rebel lion against society of the 1920's pervades the book. Giovene. . gives us an authentic if rather mysterious sensation of the counter culture of 50 years ago. With its oddities, its obsession with the occult, it awakens an eerie feeling of the present as deja vu." Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. 384 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel to be published in the US. Winner of Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1961 and considered a classic of modern Italian literature. Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. When it first appeared the NY Times review called it a "difficult, at times hilarious. but always rewarding novel. . What the author wants to do is to encompass within the narrow bounds of his 191 pages the elusive and multifaceted spirit of Naples. . . [and of] the lyrical, subaqueous world in which his young protagonists spend so much of their time." 191 pp.