A Very Cold Winter

A Very Cold Winter

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Cause For Celebration.Jhumpa Lahiria Novel Of Secrets And Female Solidarity Set In PostWar Milan, By One Of ItalyS Most Significant Women Writers. Fausta Cialente (18981994) Was A Novelist, Journalist, Political Activist, And One Of The First SelfDeclared Feminist Italian Writers. Though The Fascists Censored Her Early Work, She Continued As An Active Member In The AntiFascist Movement While Living Abroad In Egypt, Writing Pamphlets And Making Daily Broadcasts From Radio Cairo Against The Italian Regime. She Returned Home After The War And Eventually Began Publishing Again, Winning ItalyS Most Important Literary Award, The Strega Prize, In 1976.In A Very Cold Winter, It Is 1946 And Milan Is In Ruins. A Woman Named Camilla Opens Her Illegally Occupied Attic To Her Extended Family As They Rebuild Their Lives Among The Rubble. The Absence Of MenLost To War, Death, Or AbandonmentLeaves The Burden Of Survival To The Women, Who Use The Attic To Incubate Fragile Futures: Camilla Works To Carry The Family Toward Dignity And Normalcy; Lalla Dreams Of Becoming A Novelist To Escape Their Grim Reality; Regina, Widowed By The War, Pins Her Hopes On Her Infant Daughter; Alba Chases Independence And Love. Varying Political Ideologies, Loyalties, And Wartime Secrets Filter Through The House, Creating A Thick Net Of Tension. As The Narrative Roams From The Thoughts Of Character To Character, The Residents Of This Hotel For The Poor Consider Their Own Complicity And Moral Compromises, Wondering If TheyRe Able To Escape The Weight Of What TheyVe Lived Through. Fausta CialenteS Exquisite Prose Captures The Frailty Of The Human Heart In Its Desperate Search For Connection. An Introduction From Author And Italian Translator Claudia Durastanti Frames This Classic Feminist Icon For The Modern American Reader. Tender, ThoughtProvoking, And Devastatingly Beautiful, A Very Cold Winter Is About The Impossibility Of Forgetting The Past And The Difficulty Of Living With It.

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