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Two Women

Alberto Moravia

Paperback | Pages: 331 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 1689 Users | 98 Reviews

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Original Title:	La Ciociara
ISBN:	1586420208 (ISBN13: 9781586420208)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Rome(Italy)

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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 wrought by the devastation of war, both on the battlefield and upon those far from the fray.

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Title	:	Two Women
Author	:	Alberto Moravia
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	June 5th 2001 by Zoland Books (first published 1957)
Categories	:	European Literature. Italian Literature. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Italy

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Ratings: 3.97 From 1689 Users | 98 Reviews

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Alberto Moravia was, in my opinion, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. 'Two Women' is about a mother and daughter in wartime Rome, who flee to the countryside. The novel charts the desperation of their fugitive existence and shows the devastation of war, both physically and psychologically. Moravia and his wife themselves spent a year in hiding, which partly explains why 'Two Women' is so realistic and detailed. However, the characterisation is original and shows starkly the

A very sad book which left a great impression on me

Read in Italian.Given the title Two Women in English, the Italian title of this novel refers to a geographical region in the hill country east of Rome. The story takes place in 1943-44 during the period when the Allies were moving up the Italian peninsula, retaking it from the Germans after the collapse of the Italian fascist government. The story is told in the first person by Cesira, a widow and owner of a small shop in Rome who lives with her notably naïve daughter Rosetta, almost of

I love books about the Second World War, and this book was amazingly well written. I could feel I was in Italy during the war and the distress and pain that those people went through. Great book.

I Just adore this novel and I keep reading it over and over again

Great account of occupied Italy in later WW2, with a focus on the absolutely human desperation of civilians - and how war takes virtually everything away.

La Ciociara! I must confess I had a hard time dealing with this book. I borrowed it from a class mate and I was at school, trying to get rid of boredom. I started reading the book and it seemed so annoying and boring from the first pages that I thought I would just drop it. I didnt, though, because I was really bored and wanted to cool off my mind (of school, of course ) so in the end I kept reading and reading, even though I still didnt seem to like it.Now that Ive read the book, I know what