FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, "Two Women" is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith. When the German occupation of Rome becomes imminent, Cesira packs a few provisions, sews her life savings into the seams of her dress, and flees with Rosetta to her native province of Ciociara, a poor, mountainous region south of Rome. Cesira's currency ...
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FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, "Two Women" is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith. When the German occupation of Rome becomes imminent, Cesira packs a few provisions, sews her life savings into the seams of her dress, and flees with Rosetta to her native province of Ciociara, a poor, mountainous region south of Rome. Cesira's currency soon loses its value, and a vicious barter economy, fraught with shifty traffickers and thieves, emerges among the mountain peasants and refugees. Mother and daughter endure nine months of hunger, cold, and filth as they await the arrival of the Allied forces. Cesira scarcely cares who wins the war, so long as victory comes soon and brings with it a return to her quiet shopkeeper's life. Instead, the Liberation brings tragedy. While heading back to Rome the pair are attacked by a group of Allied Moroccan soldiers, who rape Rosetta and beat Cesira unconscious. This act of violence and its resulting loss of innocence so embitters Rosetta that she falls numbly into a life of prostitution. Throughout these hardships Moravia offers up an intimate portrayal of the anguish and destruction wrought by war, both on the battlefield and upon those far from the fray.
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Add this copy of Two Women to cart. $11.60, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published by Manor.
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GOOD. Size: 7x4x0; 287 clean, unmarked, tight pages with light tanning and a small bump to top edge; name/date written inside front cover; cover has light shelf, edge, and corner wear, rubbing, and mildly creased spine; book is bowed from storage.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, Second Printing (1958). Not price-clipped ($4.95 price intact). Published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. Octavo. Hardcover. Purple topstain. Book is very good with previous owner name on title page and bookplate on pastedown and slight spine lean. Dust jacket is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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1958, Secker & Warburg
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First edition in English; proof copy in wrappers
Publisher:
Secker & Warburg
Published:
1958
Alibris ID:
9259713148
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Translated by Angus Davidson. Flap price-clipped; some moderate edgewear. 356 pp. 8vo,
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