- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023 · Shortlist · for the translation by Brian Robert Moore
A Silence Shared
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Lalla Romano (born 1906)
Translated by Brian Robert Moore
English editions
In EnglishA Silence Shared
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 19 January 2023 · Paperback · 192 pages
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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.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 171 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 1957 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
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9781782278207 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)