This novel is written by the author of "The Political Prisoner", which he wrote when he was arrested in 1935 for anti-fascist activities and sentenced to preventive detention at the prison of Brancaleone. He also translated Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Melville Stein and Faulkner.
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This novel is written by the author of "The Political Prisoner", which he wrote when he was arrested in 1935 for anti-fascist activities and sentenced to preventive detention at the prison of Brancaleone. He also translated Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Melville Stein and Faulkner.
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New. Clelia, a successful couturier, returns to Turin at the end of the Second World War. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, including the charismatic Rosetta, whose tragic death forms the novel's climax. Pavese's gritty tales of post-war Italy have led to frequent comparisons with Michelangelo Antonioni (Blowup, Beyond the Clouds), who successfully filmed Among Women Only as Le Amiche in 1955.