History: A Novel Summary
Elsa Morante

History Summary

History: A Novel, is a moving saga that follows the life of a half-Jewish Italian school teacher and her young son, who is the result of rape by a German soldier. Ida Mancuso, a widow born in 1904, is a single parent to her son, Nino. She is raped by a young German soldier in 1941 and conceives a child. Her new son, Giuseppe, named after her father, becomes the focus of Ida's...

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