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Steerforth Press
Elsa Morante
History
N/A
2000
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Publisher > Steerforth Press
Author > Elsa Morante
Title > History
Issue > N/A
Year > 2000
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ISBN > 9781586422370
Pages > 659
Genre > Fiction Literature Historical-Fiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2000-01
Release > 2026-10-13
Disks > 01 x 3 MB
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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 an account of what history the great
political events driven by men of power wealth and ambition 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 falls in love with her and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose
survival becomes Idas passion Around these two other characters come and
go each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood We catch
glimpses of bombing raids street crimes a cattle car from which human
cries
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https://www.vitalsource.com/products/history-a-novel-elsa-
morante-v9781586422370
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