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Roman Elegy by Sabine Gruber; Peter Lewis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Roman Elegy about?

It is 2009: writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome to sort out the affairs and clear the flat of her school friend Ines, prematurely dead from cancer. Sorting through Ines's belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing not only an autobiographical account of Ines's strange experiences while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the summer of 1978, but also the life story of her former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente. Originally from Italy's German-speaking enclave South Tyrol (like Clara and Ines), Emma first comes to Rome in the late 1930s and becomes an eyewitness to the capital's turbulent past and present: Mussolini's fascist regime, the Nazi occupation and an uneasy postwar democracy threatened by corruption and extremism. In a sweeping tale of remembrance and reconciliation, of lives unfulfilled and loves unrequited, Roman Elegy interweaves the personal stories of three resilient women with a fascinating historical narrative of the Eternal City, in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery.

Who reads Roman Elegy?

Author

Sabine Gruber; Peter Lewis

Publisher

Haus Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908323361

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14