Elsa Morante

Arturo's Island

Bildungsroman about a boy's awakening on a Mediterranean island during adolescence

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Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante

Italian author whose monumental novel History: A Novel is one of the great 20th-century fictions of war's devastation of ordinary people. Arturo's Island and Menzogna e sortilegio are her other major works.

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