The Leucothea Dialogues

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Winner of the 2026 PEN Translation Prize A shifting, primordial work by Cesare Pavese, plumbing the netherworlds of philosophy, myth, human feeling, and mortality Above all [Pavese's novels] are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings . . . Each one of Pavese's novels revolves around a hidden theme, something unsaid which is the real thing he wants to say. — Italo Calvino Cesare Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues is peopled with gods, centaurs, clouds