Rosetta Loy

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A work of understated elegance and cumulative power, this novel eases readers into a drama unfolding within a Catholic family in Italy on the eve of World War II. As scenes only dimly understood by the child Lorenza are revisited by the woman she becomes, what seemed a family affair--a romance involving Lorenza's mother, her father's Jewish friend Arturo, and her aunt Margot in Switzerland--begins to reveal the broader outlines of the drama of history, in particular the tragedy of Italy's Jews during the Holocaust. Limning the interplay of past and present, of memory and presence, this haunting work by one of Italy's foremost writers brings t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Conti, Gregory (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8032-8006-9
EAN: 9780803280069
Produktnummer: 9188976
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 189 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 272 g
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Gewicht: 272

Über den Autor

Rosetta Loy, author of seven novels, is one of Italy's leading contemporary writers. Her work has garnered numerous major literary prizes in Italy as well as the 1996 European Prize for literature. Gregory Conti has translated five books from Italian, including Rosetta Loy's childhood memoir, First Words.