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TETTO MURATO
A diamond-sharp, Italian classic about the mysterious relationships between two partisan couples in German-occupied Italy in the wintry mountains of Piemonte. This hauntingly beautiful, sharply modern novel of WWII is perfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen, Rachel Cusk, and Lucia Berlin.
This is a captivating classic novel that inhabits the silent spaces between historic events, depicting the mysterious luminosity of human relationships in extraordinary circumstances. In prose of subtle, enigmatic atmospheres and acutely precise images, Lalla Romano evokes both the tension and the stillness of life in occupied Italy.
Sheltering from the war in a provincial town outside of Turin, Giulia and her husband Stefano feel an instant affinity with Ada and Paolo: she a spontaneous, vibrant young woman, he a sickly intellectual, a teacher and partisan in hiding.
As the Germans begin to occupy Italy, a subtle dance of attractions between the couples begins, intensified by their shared isolation and the muffled hum of threat over a long, hard winter.
In a highly successful literary career that spanned much of the twentieth century, the Piedmontese writer and painter Lalla Romano published nineteen novels and collections of short stories, three books of poetry, several photo texts, and numerous prose works and translations. Romano's writing was admired by many of the most important and influential Italian writers of the twentieth century, such as Eugenio Montale, Elio Vittorini, and Italo Calvino, and it played an important role in the greater recognition of a tradition of women's writing that slowly developed in Italy in the latter part of the century. She was indeed one of relatively few twentieth-century Italian women writers to win both critical and popular acclaim.
Born in 1906, Lalla Romano's first poetry collection was published with the support of Eugenio Montale. The exacting and powerful language of Tetto murato (1957), as well as the book's gripping character dynamics, reflects Romano's maturity as a novelist. Following its critical success, she solidified her position as one of Italy's most renowned writers with novels such as La penombra che abbiamo attraversato (The Penumbra, previously published in English by Quartet Books rights are currently available) and Le parole tra noi leggere (Small Words Between Us), for which she won the country's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, in 1969.
Sheltering from the war in a provincial town outside of Turin, Giulia and her husband Stefano feel an instant affinity with Ada and Paolo: she a spontaneous, vibrant young woman, he a sickly intellectual, a teacher and partisan in hiding.
As the Germans begin to occupy Italy, a subtle dance of attractions between the couples begins, intensified by their shared isolation and the muffled hum of threat over a long, hard winter.
In a highly successful literary career that spanned much of the twentieth century, the Piedmontese writer and painter Lalla Romano published nineteen novels and collections of short stories, three books of poetry, several photo texts, and numerous prose works and translations. Romano's writing was admired by many of the most important and influential Italian writers of the twentieth century, such as Eugenio Montale, Elio Vittorini, and Italo Calvino, and it played an important role in the greater recognition of a tradition of women's writing that slowly developed in Italy in the latter part of the century. She was indeed one of relatively few twentieth-century Italian women writers to win both critical and popular acclaim.
Born in 1906, Lalla Romano's first poetry collection was published with the support of Eugenio Montale. The exacting and powerful language of Tetto murato (1957), as well as the book's gripping character dynamics, reflects Romano's maturity as a novelist. Following its critical success, she solidified her position as one of Italy's most renowned writers with novels such as La penombra che abbiamo attraversato (The Penumbra, previously published in English by Quartet Books rights are currently available) and Le parole tra noi leggere (Small Words Between Us), for which she won the country's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, in 1969.
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Published 2025-10-24 by Einaudi |