Elsa Morante

• Mar-1977
• / General Fiction
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History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write ...

• Dec-1985
• / General Fiction
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At the age of 43, Manuel, an unattractive, self-loathing, recovering drug addict who works a dead-end job at a small publishing house, travels to his mother's hometown in Spain to understand why she suddenly became a nymphomaniac and died. Filled wit...

• Feb-2019
• / Literary
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Elsa Morante’s novels are “astonishing for the quality of the writing, . . . the complexity of the invented world, the wide-ranging view of the human condition” (Elena Ferrante).Once considered the greatest writer of Italy’s postwar generatio...

• Aug-2023
• / Literary
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An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature -- Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own gene...