Italian bookshops around the world recommend…: the new Feltrinelli bookshop in Montevideo

From 2025 onwards, newitalianbooks is asking Italian booksellers around the world to highlight the books most in demand amongst their readers. Through this initiative, newitalianbooks aims to highlight the role that Italian bookshops abroad play in promoting Italian books worldwide.

This month’s featured bookshop is the new Feltrinelli bookshop in Montevideo

In February this year, a new Feltrinelli bookshop opened its doors in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. It is the first Feltrinelli bookshop in South America: 60,000 titles, spread over two floors of a 1920s building – a symbol of Art Nouveau in the heart of the city – with a café open all day long. A new cultural hub, with an entire floor dedicated to world literature and, in particular, a large section of Italian books.

The Feltrinelli bookshop in Montevideo has selected the following titles for readers of newitalianbooks…