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Original Title:	La Ciociara
ISBN:	1586420208 (ISBN13: 9781586420208)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Rome(Italy)

Two Women Paperback | Pages: 331 pages

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FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beauty and devout faith. When the German occupation of Rome becomes imminent, Cesira packs a few provisions, sews her life savings into the seams of her dress, and flees with Rosetta to her native province of Ciociara, a poor, mountainous region south of Rome. Cesira's currency soon loses its value, and a vicious barter economy, fraught with shifty traffickers and thieves, emerges among the mountain peasants and refugees. Mother and daughter endure nine months of hunger, cold, and filth as they await the arrival of the Allied forces. Cesira scarcely cares who wins the war, so long as victory comes soon and brings with it a return to her quiet shopkeeper's life. Instead, the Liberation brings tragedy. While heading back to Rome the pair are attacked by a group of Allied Moroccan soldiers, who rape Rosetta and beat Cesira unconscious. This act of violence and its resulting loss of innocence so embitters Rosetta that she falls numbly into a life of prostitution. Throughout these hardships Moravia offers up an intimate portrayal of the anguish wrought by the devastation of war, both on the battlefield and upon those far from the fray.

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Title	:	Two Women
Author	:	Alberto Moravia
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	June 5th 2001 by Zoland Books (first published 1957)
Categories	:	European Literature. Italian Literature. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Italy

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Ratings: 3.97 From 1689 Users | 98 Reviews

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In this, one of the twentieth-centurys great novels, Moravia offers an insight into the Italian experience of the Second World War, an experience virtually unknown in the Anglo-Saxon world. Here we see the struggles of Italians who move to the countryside around Rome to escape the German troops who are nominally their allies. The story centres around Cesira, a woman of the country who lives in wartime Rome, and her naive daughter Rosetta. Fleeing the danger and deprivation of Rome, the two women

I Just adore this novel and I keep reading it over and over again

A very thorough and humane description of the effects that war has on souls of all those whose life it touches. The story is told from the perspective of an uneducated and earthly woman amidst the chaos of the WWII. Every time the story risks to become too slow or, at times, gloom, Moravia introduces an unexpected turn of events or, more often, unexpected feelings and thoughts that are provoked by the events. As often happens in his books, despite all the suffering, or perhaps, to some extent

This book is not like Moravia's other novels (Girl Indiferente and Boredom, in particular). The prose was dry and the characters weren't very insightful. It's not a bad book (I could never say that about one of Moravia's books), but it's a lot more boring than his books, even though it is one of Moravia's writing styles to move slowly and unveil the truth gradually, but poignantly.

Absolutely obsessed with Italian writing- there is something so unique and beautiful about it.

This book is just way longer than it needs to be. Not bad but nothing that I would read twice.It describes the times at WW2 pretty authentically. Everything is very rough and coarse. The ending was a little flat and dissapointing.