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Mown Fields (1933) represents the culmination and swan song of a life that ended too soon – the author finished the novel just five months before his death from tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-one.
Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
The novel The Forgotten Girl is based on the real life of a member of New York's posh circles, who fought for the rights of Kunić, a group of women who survived the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The great writer's short novel The Parting Shot is one of those great works in which the conciseness of the statement and the brevity of the form emanate the fullness of the text and the passion of its meanings.
A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.