Books by Elsa Morante (1)
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Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante EN
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An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation. Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired—and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Written during World War II, Morante’s celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, is in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women. The story is set in Sicily and told by Elisa, orphaned young ... continue