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Availability:In StockContributor:Fausta Cialente, Julia Nelsen (Translator), Claudia Durastanti (Introduction by)Publish date:1/20/2026Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Transit BooksISBN-13:9798893380231UPC:9798893380231Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, WomenSize:7.87 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCT66VG1S4

A Very Cold Winter

"Cause for celebration."--Jhumpa Lahiri

A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy's most significant women writers.

Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored her early work, she continued as an active member in the anti-fascist movement...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Transit BooksISBN-13:9798893380231UPC:9798893380231Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, WomenSize:7.87 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCT66VG1S4

Author, journalist, and translator Fausta Cialente was one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Her early work anticipated modern feminism by decades, however, distribution was limited by the Fascist censorship that followed her refusal to cut depictions of a lesbian affair from her first book Natalia (1931). Contributing to the anti-Fascist movement through her journalism from...

Publisher: Transit Books

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