Tonino Benacquista: 9 books

Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series: “A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots.”—The New York Times “Unexpected...

Every Thursday night at 7 o’clock a group of three men meet in Paris. Each man’s life, his story, his situation, is as different from the others’ as can be. What unites them is heartache. Trouble, that is, with women. The meetings are held in a spirit of openness and tolerance. In an almost...

Wer ist der berühmteste Held im Wilden Westen? Natürlich Lucky Luke! Bis eines Tages ein gewisser Allan „Private Eye“ Pinkerton, seines Zeichens Detektiv, die Daltons bei einem Eisenbahnüberfall verhaftet und von den Massen zum neuen Star hochgejubelt wird. Wird es Lucky Luke rechtzeitig gelingen,...

Lucky Luke buchtet die Dalton-Brüder mal wieder ein. Kaum im Knast, bekommt Joe ein ernsthaftes Autoritätsproblem: seine drei Brüder wollen nicht mehr nach seiner Pfeife tanzen! Also trennt man sich und derjenige, der als erster 1 Millionen Dollar verdient… ähem… ergaunert hat, wird der neue...

Second novel available in English by the author. The first, Holy Smoke, was widely reviewed and sold well in the UK. Someone Else a best seller in France (over 80,000 sold. Two men facing a mid-life crisis decide to rock the boat. Suspense and humour in equal measure.

A Parigi tutti i giovedì s’incontrano in luoghi di fortuna uomini dai destini e dalle condizioni diversissime tra loro, ma accomunati da pene di cuore. Le assemblee si svolgono nello spirito di tolleranza più completo: nessuno ha il diritto di ribattere alle testimonianze che vengono recate e...

In una tranquilla e un po’ sperduta cittadina della Normandia arriva una famiglia di americani, i Blake. Lui dice di essere uno scrittore e sembra lavorare a un libro sullo storico sbarco, lei si dedica alla beneficenza, i figli cercano di ambientarsi nella nuova scuola e di fare amicizia con i...

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A pharmaceutical testing center. Three human test subjects. Three pills a day for twenty-one days. And at the end, a check for 3,500 euros. Our three guinea pigs begin the test thinking they're in it for the money. Three weeks later, they leave transformed. Have their dreams come true, or will their lives become living nightmares?