Review: Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante – Thoughts on Papyrus

Arturo's Island [1957/2019] - ★★★★ This coming-of-age story won the 1957 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, but this review is of a newer translation by Ann Goldstein. The book tells of a fourteen-year-old boy Arturo Gerace living in Procida, Bay of Naples, Italy some time before the World War II. Growing up without…

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Review: Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante – Thoughts on Papyrus

Elsa Morante – Thoughts on Papyrus

The Disillusionist, Madeleine Schwartz

Sally Read on X: Elsa Morante: one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. (I refuse to use ridiculous qualifiers for “writers” like “Italian” and “women”). She is well translated into