During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to be hospitalized urgently.

A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as...

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in whic...

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life toge...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

In the quiet villa, a girl cares for her ailing father, a man confronting the weight of his past as ...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much ...