A Very Cold Winter
$44.33
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2026
Summary
A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy’s most significant women writers. Translated by Julia Nelsen.
It is 1946 and Milan is in ruins. Camilla opens her illegally occupied attic to her extended family as they rebuild their lives among the rubble. The absence of men – lost to war, death, or abandonment – leaves the burden of survival to the women, who use the attic to begin to imagine fragile futures: Camilla works to carry the family toward dig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398564039 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398564036 |
| Author: | Fausta Cialente, Julia Nelsen |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 198mm |
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Fausta Cialente
Fausta Cialente 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 while living abroad in Egypt, writing pamphlets and making daily broadcasts against the Italian regime. She returned home after the war and eventually began publishing again, winning Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1976.
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