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Item Details
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HISTORY
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Elsa Morante, William Riviere, William Weaver (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141186925 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141186924 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2002 |
| Pages: |
768 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
This novel concerns a widowed Italian schoolteacher, Ida Mancuso, with a feckless teenaged son. After being raped by a German, she finds that the son she bears provides her only source of meaning amid universal catastrophe. |
| Synopsis: |
HISTORY was written nearly 3 decades after Morante spent a year hiding from the Germans in 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 an account of what history does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion, and her source of joy and meaning amid universal catastrophe. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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