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History : A Novel by Elsa Morante; William Weaver; Lily Tuck is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is History : A Novel about?

History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion. Around these two other characters come and go, each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood. We catch glimpses of bombing raids, street crimes, a cattle car from which human cries emerge, an Italian soldier succumbing to frostbite on the Russian front, the dumb endurance of peasants who have lived their whole lives with nothing and now must get by with less than nothing.

Who reads History : A Novel?

Author

Elsa Morante; William Weaver; Lily Tuck

Publisher

Steerforth Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781586420048

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.2 / 5 (201 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14