SA was the pen name of Marta Felicina Faccio (1976-1960); this is her unforgettable autobiographical novel, published in her native Italy in 1906. Both an education sentimentale and a very early awakening of a feminist consciousness, the author comes to acknowledge her domestic entrapment and need for self-determination. A powerful and sometimes shocking portrait of a woman’s life in late C19th Italy. Ferrante’s grandmother, as it were, and quite as austere. First publication in English.
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A Woman
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Meditations on Rome and Venice by the celebrated American poet. The latest in the Ekphrasis series, the small paperbacks from David Zwirner.
Two Cities
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An exploration of the art, personalities and politics of Baroque Rome seen through the lens of Bernini's elephant carrying an obelisk. Lively, anecdotal and well illustrated.
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Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Lampedusa
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This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...