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Item Details
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ROMAN ELEGY
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| By: |
Sabine Gruber, Peter Lewis (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908323604 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908323606 |
| Publisher: |
HAUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2014 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
Roman Elegy is the story of three generations of women from South Tyrol who emigrate to Rome and experience the capital's turbulent past and present, interweaving their personal stories with a fascinating historical narrative of the Eternal City, in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery. |
| Synopsis: |
In the summer of 2009, writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome to sort out the affairs of her school friend Ines, who has died prematurely from cancer. Sorting through Ines's belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing not only an autobiographical account of Ines's strange experiences while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the 1970s, but also the life story of her former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente. Originally from Italy's German-speaking enclave South Tyrol (like Clara and Ines), Emma first comes to Rome in the late 1930s and becomes an eyewitness to the capital's turbulent past and present: Mussolini's fascist regime, the Nazi occupation and an uneasy postwar democracy threatened by corruption and extremism. In a sweeping tale of remembrance and reconciliation, of lives unfulfilled and loves unrequited, Roman Elegy interweaves the personal stories of three resilient women with a fascinating historical narrative of the Eternal City, in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Haus Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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