A Woman, Sibilla Aleramo lighting food and customs

food and customs

Skate with Me

'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere

the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder

In this comic first novel

A Woman, Sibilla Aleramo lighting food and customsWhen her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed