In the canon
History
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1974
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 740
A half-Jewish schoolteacher in wartime Rome is raped by a German soldier and raises the son born from it through bombing raids and hunger, and by the war's end history has ground this one small family down exactly as it grinds down nations.
TO UNDERSTAND, on the contrary! It is necessary TO UNDERSTAND! The vital end of man: is to understand.
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