by Carlo Cassola · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817009669
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«La ragazza di Bube» is the historical fiction novel by Carlo Cassola, published by Rizzoli in paperback (259 pages, in Italian).
Set in Tuscany after World War II, it tells the story of Mara, a young woman from Monteguidi who falls in love with the former partisan Bube. Bube's difficult return to civilian life ends in a flight that tests the relationship; Mara matures and decides to wait for him. Cassola combines memory and the psychology of the characters.
Winner of the Strega Prize in 1960, the year of its original publication. This Rizzoli edition, in the BUR collection, includes an introduction by Geno Pampaloni.
Recommended for readers of post-war Italian fiction and historical fiction with a wartime and romantic backdrop.
Carlo Cassola was an Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film of the same name by Luigi Comencini in 1963.
