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  • Unconditional and other stories
    Silvano Stagni
    A collection of short stories describing poignant moments:A divorced father synchronises dreams with his daughter. A newly divorced father, travelling on business, misses his childrenGrandparents accept their gay grandson and his partner. A sophisticated Venetian lady overcomes her views to play a pivotal role in a same-sex wedding because 'our family does not put terms and con...
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    9,51 €

  • Venetian Gold
    Silvano Stagni
    Venice 1930. Three clients contact the Venier-Zanin law firm to discuss a bizarre clause in a loan contract: under the contract terms, borrowers are required to use a specific shipping company until the loan is fully repaid. Rachele is sure that the connection between the bank and the shipping company holds the key to understanding that clause. Two of her clients, Wolfgang Mey...
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    9,42 €

  • Murders and Masterpieces - A Venetian Mystery
    Silvano Stagni
    Venice1866, a Frenchman on his honeymoon, sees an artist sketching a scene. When he visits his workshop, he falls in love with the painting and commissions five versions: one for himself, one for his two siblings, one for his parents, and another small one as a sample to show them while waiting for the others to arrive.Venice 1950. Somebody kills an art dealer using one piece o...
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    11,62 €

  • Villa Kalman’s Secrets
    Silvano Stagni
    Venice 1925. Somebody shoots at two teenagers who jumped a fence to retrieve a ball from Villa Kalman’s garden. A couple of months later, a young man is found severely beaten and unconscious in the shed of the same villa. Who fired the shot? Who was the young man? Why was he beaten unconscious? Were those events related? Rachele Modiano Mendes is pregnant with her second child....
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    7,80 €

  • Elena’s Memory
    Silvano Stagni
    Venice 1947. Countess Pesaro De Bonfili is searching for the legitimate heirs of Raffaele and Sylvia Mustaki, a couple who did not survive Nazi camps. Two researchers from a Venetian law firm travel to a displaced people camp in Germany to meet Leah Mustaki, a young woman who could be the couple’s daughter but has lost her memory. Bound by hope and fate, Leah journeys to Venice...
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    11,76 €

  • Reflections in the water
    Silvano Stagni
    Venice, 1921. Rachele Modiano Mendes faces the daunting challenge of being a married woman practising law. Her first civil case turns into a web of fraud, blackmail, and murder. Faced with the doubts of the court and the police, Rachele must unravel the mystery behind the case, confront a sceptical magistrate, who dismisses her as an aristocrat toying with the law as a hobby, a...
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    7,82 €

  • The Dressmaker’s Parcels
    Silvano Stagni
    What turning point makes you decide to risk your life to bring about change? Emma Mendes was a girl from an upper-class Venetian family; she led a comfortable life. She was the eldest daughter of one of the few professional couples in 1930s Venice and planned to become a lawyer like her mother. Then, in 1938, Fascist Italy passed racial laws discriminating against Jews, and her...
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    17,26 €

  • Unconditional
    Silvano Stagni
          A collection of feel-good short stories. A divorced father synchronising dreams with his daughter, grandparents accepting their gay grandson and his partner, parents accepting a child born with issues, a family member overcoming her views on marriage to have a pivotal role in a same-sex wedding because "our family does not put terms and conditions on love", and other stor...
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    7,64 €