May Book Haul - Salone Del Libro, Torino

This month, I managed to visit Salone del Libro in Torino for the first time in 14 years. 
Last time I was there, I went during a school trip and it was definitely on a weekday.
This time, I visited on a Saturday. It was chaotic.
There were so many people around, I could barely see the stands.
On one hand, that was probably a good thing as I didn't buy as many books as I actually did; on the other hand, I would have liked to see more books, if not to buy them, at least to add them to my TBR.

As I have shared the titles on my Instagram already, I would like to talk a little bit more about each of the books that are also available in English.

• Residenza Per Sole Signore by Masako Togawa (EN The Master Key)
  The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over one hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old, and in some cases, evil.
  Their residence conceals a secret connecting the unsolved 1951 kidnapping of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house.
  So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow. Then the master key is lost, stolen and re-stolen, and suddenly no-one feels safe.
  
  
  
  
  
• La Ragazza Che Saltava Nel Tempo by Yasutaka Tsutsui (EN The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Kazuko Yoshiyama, a third-year middle school student who accidentally acquired the ability to time travel after an unfortunate accident in a school science lab. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• La Libreria Alla Fine Del Mondo by Ruth Shaw (EN The Bookseller At The End Of The World)
  A rich, immersive, funny and heart-breaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.
  Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life.
  She's sailed through the Pacific for years, been held up by pirates, worked at Sydney's Kings Cross with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous environmental issues, and worked the yacht Breaksea Girl with her husband, Lance.
  Underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful sense of humour.
  This will make you weep and make you laugh and make you want to read more books - and make you want to visit Ruth and her two wee bookshops.
  
  
  
  
  
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (IT Kafka Sulla Spiaggia)
  Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
  The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
  As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.
  
  

  
  
  
• Seni e Uova by Mieko Kawakami (EN Breasts and Eggs)
  Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.
  It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations.
  On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.
  
  
  
  
  

(All pictures and summaries are taken from Goodreads)