First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy by Rosetta Loy

First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy

Rosetta Loy with Gregory Conti (Translator)

224 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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An internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist movingly chronicles her childhood in Rome during World War II, providing a rare account by a Catholic of Jewish persecution and Papal responsibility In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-ye...

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