What if you actually made progress in Italian by reading a masterpiece — no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?

This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the complete novel in Italian AND in English, together in the same volume. You read Italian; English is right there to help you.

Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.

— THE METHOD —

Ordinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the Italian text on the left, the English text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.

Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every sentence in Italian is immediately followed by its English translation — like subtitles, but on paper.

• Understand everything, instantly — the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phone
• Improve without noticing — your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and Italian grammar sinks in naturally
• Learn Italian by finally reading what you love — a real novel, not textbook dialogue

Suitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it — and never gets in the way of your reading.

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— THE BOOK —

A London narrator sees his daily life overturned when cylinders from Mars crash onto Earth. Alien machines quickly emerge and begin to destroy everything in their path, far exceeding human capabilities.

Faced with this unexpected threat, panic spreads and survival becomes the only priority. The narrative follows the progressive disintegration of society in the face of an unknown force. The author constructs a tense, visionary work on human fragility and the limits of progress.

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