History by Elsa Morante & Lily Tuck & William Weaver

History by Elsa Morante & Lily Tuck & William Weaver

Author:Elsa Morante & Lily Tuck & William Weaver [Morante, Elsa & Tuck, Lily & Weaver, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Genre Fiction, Historical, Military, War, Literary, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Italian, Literary Fiction
Amazon: B00SECZGPU
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 2015-03-10T16:00:00+00:00


At home, that morning, there was not only no gas, but also no electricity or water. Filomena, however, grateful for a little gift of fl managed to make Ida some pettola ( pasta ) and to cook it along wi her own, adding a little fistful of beans, already boiled.

Ida took another portion of fl with her when she went out that afternoon. That day (like every Thursday since the schools had closed ) she had to go give a private lesson in the neighborhood of the Trastevere station. And she planned, on her return, to go as far as Via Garibaldi, where she knew a man who, in exchange for the fl would give her some meat for Useppe's supper.

This plan for the day was tangled in her head like wire. It was the fi

of June, and, oddly, it was like a due date, for all the accumulated fatigue of the month of May to fall on her at once. After the fear of death that had gripped her as she fl from the truck, she found h erself again, worse than before, bewildered and cowardly like a pariah dog persecuted by the dogcatchers. As she headed for Via Garibaldi, she felt her legs buckling, and she sat down to rest on a little bench in the garden this side of the



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