Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
Published just months before the author's suicide in 1950, this novel has since become one of Pavese's most sought-after books. In this classic, a successful couturier returns to Turin, the city in which she grew up, at the end of World War II. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, including the charismatic Rosetta, whose tragic death forms the novel's climax. But Turin itself is at the heart of the story, its pervading melancholy deftly rendered by a master craftsman.
Publication
London : P. Owen, c1953, 1979 printing..
ISBN
0720603501 / 9780720603507
Pages
198
Language
Original language
Italian
Original publication date
1949