Description
In the shadow of World War II, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, Cesira, and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Rosetta, confront nine months of occupation marked by hunger, cold, and degradation. As the city’s fortunes turn and the war grinds on, Cesira’s hard practicality collides with Rosetta’s haunting beauty and devout innocence, shaping how each woman endures what they cannot control. Their survival becomes a test of love, dignity, and moral choice—raising questions about faith, power, and the quiet ways people adapt when history closes in. With Moravia’s clear-eyed, unsentimental style, this intimate story turns the vast machinery of war into a deeply human portrait of two lives strained to the breaking point and forced to find meaning in endurance.
Available Editions
paperback
Zoland Books
Published Jun 5, 2001
350 pages
ISBN: 9781586420208
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Details
First Published
1958
Language
ita
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Two Women by Alberto Moravia.