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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.
Along with the reissues of "Sarajevo Marlboro" and "Karivan", the book also contains a new cycle of stories by this author. These stories vividly portray characters, "little" people, witnesses of "big" history, and seemingly insignificant, but for them pi
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.
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.
During World War II, an American colonel with secrets about the Normandy invasion is stranded on an occupied island. A British agent must rescue him or prevent him from falling into German hands.
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.