- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, general
"The two women of Alberto Moravia's powerful story are mother and daughter - Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith.
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- Author
- Alberto Moravia
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Bompiani, Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg, Berkley Pub Group (Mm)
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- French, vie, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780586057025
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“AH, THOSE GOOD DAYS when I was a young bride and left my native village and came to Rome!”
Alberto Moravia is an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist known for his fictional portrayals of social alienation and loveless sexuality. He was a major figure in 20th-century Italian literature. Moravia contracted tuberculosis of the bone (a form of osteomyelitis usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis) at the age of 8, but, during several years in which he was confined to bed and two years in sanatoriums, he studied French, German, and English; read Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto, William Shakespeare, and Molire; and began to write. Moravia was a journalist for a time in Turin and a foreign correspondent in London. His first novel, Gli indifferenti (1929; Time o
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