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

List Books Supposing Two Women

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

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La Ciociara aka Two Women, based on the novel by Alberto MoraviaA different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... and http://realini.blogspot.ro/ Two Women is one of the best films ever made.You can find it on the New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list:- http://www.listchallenges.com/new-yor...The film has won:- The Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading role and the BAFTA in the same category for Sophia Loren-

A very sad book which left a great impression on me

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

Moravia seems to be a master of great endings. Nothing particularly happens in most chapters of the book, but the last three or four chapters are amazing. The author faithfully describes how war can change a mentality of a girl just like the mentality of a whole society. I do recommand it, you will not regret reading the 'quite okay' majority of the book to get to the amazing finale!

Set in the last winter of the Second World War, the book tells the story of a woman and her daughter who are forced to live in a windowless, floorless, lightless shack in a peasant family's back yard near starvation for half a year waiting waiting waiting for the English to arrive and deliver them. Moravia and his wife had to do the same in reality and you can imagine him, the author, lying in the agony of hunger and cold and fear, counting the sensations like sheep, writing them down in his

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.

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