Cinema: May 10, 1963

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Sky Falls, by Lorenza Mazzetti. Superbly unchildish reminiscences of childhood in wartime Italy, where innocence suffers a memorably brutal death.

The Sin of Father Amara, by Eça de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s.

What's Become of Waring, by Anthony Powell. First U.S. publication of an early comic novel laid in prewar literary London, which demonstrates that even as a young man Powell had the amused, detached eye and the gift for mimicry so impressively evident in his later, major enterprise, The Music of Time.

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