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Lia Levi
ISBN: 9781933372938
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Europa Editions
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It is the late 1930s and Italy's Fascist government has imposed its infamous race laws. In Rome, the young professor is a Jew in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Sonia. She is everything that he is not…
It is the late 1930s and Italy's Fascist government has imposed its infamous race laws. In Rome, the young professor is a Jew in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Sonia. She is everything that he is not: privileged, Catholic, and the daughter of prominent parents who enthusiastically support Benito Mussolini. Carpi ultimately wins Sonia's affections but the price is great. In order to enter her jealously guarded circle of family and friends, he must deny his origins. Her world has no use for him and to be a part of it he will ultimately be forced to accept humiliating and painful compromises. Winner of the Moravia Prize for fiction, The Jewish Husband is a bittersweet story of passion and hatred, cruelty and oppression. It is an account of a country and a time about which too little has been written, and the terrible consequences of that period's race laws. Above all, however, it is a tender love story set at a time in which the world and its inhabitants appeared to have lost their ability to show tenderness.
| ISBN | 1933372931 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9781933372938
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Europa Editions | | Weight (grammes) | 277 | | Imprint | Europa Editions | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Publication date | 10 Aug 2009 | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Translator | Shugaar, Antony | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 853.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | 17 |
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