16th Century. Two main characters. One wants to overthrow the social order. The other is a spy in the service of the forces who want to maintain it. Q is the spy, in the pay of Father Carafa, an ultra conservative figure, rapidly rising up the hierarchy of the Catholic church. An epic from the bowels of history, set in central Europe and Northern Italy. Someone described the book as "a theological western".

Q has been translated into Danish, Dutch, English (British and American), French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. The frontcover above is that of the British paperback edition.

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Hatchets of War. One third autobiography, one third non-fiction novel, one third essay. The story of Vitaliano Ravagli, a young leftist who gets sick of mid-1950's Italy and goes to Indochina to join the Lao guerrillas fighting Colonialism. In today's Bologna, a young lawyer tries to find the mysterious "Italian vietcong" whose legend is told among old Partisans.

1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin is dead? What is the hidden link between Lucky Luciano in his Italian exile, Cary Grant in schizophrenic combat with himself and a stolen TV set which turns out to be self-conscious and sensitive to boot? So far, the most ambitious Wu Ming collective novel.

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1775. In Massachusetts, the conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies becomes all out war.
In the colony of New York, the Six Nations - or “League of Peace and Power” – must decide if they are going to participate in the war, and alongside whom.
In the Mohawk River Valley a mestizo world exists. It is a great community of Indians, Irish and Scottish, founded by Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs appointed by King George. The thunder of war is heard in Boston and continues getting closer, old bonds are broken, the land that Sir William called "Iroquoireland" becomes a scene of hate and resentment.
The war chief Joseph Brant Thayendanegea has to make a decision and set off, taking his people far from their native land, going beyond the world he has always known.

Manituana has been translated into Spanish, English and French.

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Testo italiano per iPod

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War on the Humans. Marco has gotten sick of civilization. He goes to the Appennini hills and settles in a cave, only he's picked the wrong place to fulfill his troglodyitic fantasies. Pretty soon he gets involved in a complex story about organized crime, clandestine dog-fighting and a sensational clash between ecowarriors and poachers.

2045. The President of the USA authorizes time travel to change the history of the 20th Century and avoid America's decline as a superpower. Something goes slightly wrong. Cuba, 1972. Two agents of the Cuban intelligence investigate presumed connections between the CIA and the Marcianos, glam-rockers influenced by David Bowie. In this time continuum, Bowie has no "Berlin period": he has a "Caribbean period" and makes pro-Castro statements that make mischief among the leaders of the Communist Party.

Butoba MT5 tape recorder. Made in West Germany in 1961. Voices come out and increase the confusion. The hoarfrost of memories is turning into steam, and the cloud is all around you. Names and places surround you, the people and the songs, the wounded and the dead. You're going back to Brooklyn. It was the spring of '67, Stokely Carmichael would yell "Black Power!" and the Son of Whiteman would kill jazz players. Have a nice trip.

Giap! Stories that carry you through the desert. A collection of writings, rants, correspondence with readers and short stories taken from the 2000-2003 issues of our newsletter Giap, and selected by Tommaso De Lorenzis. All that gives life to the open community around us.

Free Baku Now. 2025. Italy is under a strange regime, a mixture of Hinayana Buddhism and Autonomist Marxism of the Toni Negri brand. Bologna is the capital of the country. A wild satire of Italian politics and the presumed role of Italy in the great hoax known as "the clash of civilizations".

"Now not much wood remains to satisfy the needs of our Lord. We've already done double, triple, and maybe even quadruple a year's work, but we return to the North, to the land of forests, to see if any wood remains. And on the way we pass a place called Dodona, at the foot of Mount Tomarus, and we make a provision of oak, even though the voice asks us to pass by and to preserve those trees. For in distant times the sound that winds and storms produced in its leaves helped a great people foresee their future, their joys and catastrophies."

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A Deep Dark Guffaw is a short story inspired by Wu Ming 1's presence among the by-standers on a murder scene. On 19 March 2002 professor Marco Biagi was shot down in Bologna by a commando of the Red Brigades. WM1 listened to conversations on this side of the "Police Line Do Not Cross" tape, then went home and wrote the story, which caused a sensation in some milieux.

Featured in the catalog of an exhibition of paintings by our friend Flavio De Marco. It kinda answers to the question: 'What's Wu Ming got to do with art?'

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