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L'Isola DI Arturo: Romanzo (Gli Struzzi) (Italian Edition)

2 reviews
Elsa Morante

Einaudi, 1957

stunning
L'isola di Arturo is a coming of age novel about Aurturo, a geographically isolated young man. It is also a novel about women's experiences in rural italy, love, idolatry, and awakenings. This is a novel that will stay with you, one of those you will think about years after you have read it.

Aracoeli (Open Letter Modern Classics)

1 review
Elsa Morante

Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press, 2009

An excellent read for those seeking world fiction
The bond between a mother and son is like no other. "Aracoeli" is the story of Manuel, a man who seems to have nothing to live for. In his mid-life crisis, he returns to his mother's hometown to try to piece together her life to gain some semblance of closure about a bond that was lost. Hoping to get his own life back on track by understanding his mother's, "Aracoeli" is deftly translated from ...

Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series)

1 review
Elsa Morante

Zoland Books, 1998

The movie seemed better - but perhaps I misremember
I recall seeing the 1962 filmed version of this watching late night TV with my father back when I was thirteen or so. I haven't seen the film since then, but I remember it being very provocative and moody. Sort of like "The Summer of '42." Or maybe it was just my hormones. (I also recall seeing Sophia Loren in "Madame Sans Gene" with the Old Man. La Loren was wearing a peasant blouse and ...

La Storia (in French) (French Edition)
Elsa Morante

French & European Pubns, 2005

History: A Novel

25 reviews
Elsa Morante

Zoland Books, 2000

I was moved and saddened, but I just kept reading.
Elsa Morante, the author, lived though WWII in Italy. She has a real understanding of what that was like and she shares this with her readers in quite a profound way. I was moved and saddened. But I just kept reading, and by the end of the book I had developed a deep understanding of the horror of war as it affected the ordinary people. Ida, a widowed schoolteacher in her thirties, is raped ...