A sun soaked, hilarious mediation on family life in mid-century Italy and one of the most exciting rediscovered classics in years.

During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family.

But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their daughter a loud little dog and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the regions recently overthrown fascist regime

Translated by Ann Goldstein, the world-renowned translator of Elena Ferrante, A House in Sicily is a brilliantly funny, razor sharp examination of family life in the shadow of the darkest period of modern Italian history, and the most exciting rediscovered European classic in decades.

Format: Oversized paperback
Published: UK, 2026
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 216
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1405973900
ISBN 13: 9781405973908