First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy - Hardcover

Loy, Rosetta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805062580 ISBN 13: 9780805062588

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2000

Synopsis

An internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist movingly chronicles her childhood in Rome during World War II, providing a rare account by a Catholic of Jewish perscution and Papal responsibility.

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Review:

." . . It comes many years after the fact, but that in no way diminishes its passion or its quiet power." (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World) ." . . gulf between a child's steady, daily understanding of the world and the reality of the terrible momentum of hatred astonishes . . ." (Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times) "Armed meticulously researched detail, Loy wastes no words, allowing the facts to speak for themselves . . . with profound eloquence." (Peggy Earle, The Virginian Pilot)"

About the Author:

Born in Rome in 1931, Rosetta Loy is one of Italy's leading novelists and journalists. She has written seven novels and been honored with every major Italian literary award. In 1996 she received the prestigious European Prize for literature. Her work has been translated into eleven languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0805062580
• ISBN 13: 9780805062588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186