Portrait of the Mother As a Young Woman
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780956284006 (0956284000)
ASIN: 0956284000
Publish date: 2010-09-01
Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
Pages no: 115
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
World War II,
German Literature,
Germany,
Fiction
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NO SPOILERSOn completion: This is a very short novel, and it only shows how perhaps one young, pregnant German woman might have viewed the world around her. It takes place during WW2. She is in Rome and she doesn't think there is any value in learning the language. In my opinion she is extremely nai...