by Elsa Morante · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782245007921
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«La storia» is the novel by Elsa Morante, published by Gallimard in paperback (615 pages, in French).
The novel follows Ida Mancuso, a teacher of Jewish origin, and her son Useppe, born of a rape by a German soldier, in Rome during World War II and the postwar period. Morante portrays how great historical events crush ordinary people, and the struggle of the humble to survive.
Originally published in 1974, this 1978 French edition from Gallimard includes the translation from Italian by Michel Arnaud.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in twentieth-century Italian literature and World War II.
