Book Condition - As New: A book in original condition as when published. Carefully stored, the dust jacket is pristine - free from marks, tears and blemishes. Original sky blue cloth binding and gilt lettering across the spine is mint. Pages are clean and tightly bound with crisp edges - unread.

First UK edition. Copies are extremely scarce and highly south-after, especially in such wonderful condition.

Arturo’s Island is Elsa Morante’s coming-of-age tale set on the isolated island of Procida, where Arturo, a lonely, idealistic boy, grows up idolizing his often-absent father and nurturing grand, romantic dreams shaped by books and imagination. When his father returns with a new young wife, Nunziata, Arturo’s world is disrupted, forcing him to confront jealousy, desire, disillusionment, and the limits of his fantasies. As the island’s enchantment gives way to the complexities of adulthood, the novel traces Arturo’s painful awakening to reality, love, and the imperfect humanity of the people he once idealized.