Italian novelist (1912–1985), author of L'Isola di Arturo and La Storia.

L'Isola di Arturo won the Premio Strega (1957). La Storia was published in 1974. Elsa Morante is a prominent mid-20th-century Italian novelist.

Two reader reviews discuss Elsa Morante's portraits of childhood and historical trauma in L'Isola di Arturo and La Storia. Themes highlighted include solitude, father–son relationships, innocence, and the effects of war. Both reviews praise Morante's vivid, compassionate prose.

For:Readers of literary fiction, students and scholars of Italian literature, people interested in novels about childhood and war.

 A slow read like the life of any teenager, a book masterfully written, lively, and colorful like very few where themes of solitude, the difficult father-son relationship, and the passage from adolescence to infancy intertwine within Arturo's subjectivity.

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 It is as if Useppe does not see the reality that surrounds him.

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