In English
Warwick Prize 2023 · Shortlist
A Silence Shared
Tetto murato
Lalla Romano · 51 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · War, Love
Translated by Brian Robert Moore
AI-generated summary:In wartime, two married couples who are friends spend a winter shut in together in a remote house: Ada, a young schoolteacher, with her husband Paolo, an ailing intellectual exhausted by his time with the partisans, and Giulia with her husband Stefano.