WOMAN AT WAR is the diary of a woman's growing self-awareness.
Beginning as a passively absent narrator, Vannina encounters a
fascinating array of characters during the holiday she takes on an
island in the Bay of Naples with her husband, Giacinto. When he
returns to work in a garage in Rome, Vannina travels to Naples with
Suna, a friend she has made on vacation. This startling character
opens Vannina to the possibility of finding love through other
women and helps her reject the role of serving coffee to the men
who would change the world through violence. Back in Rome, Vannina
rejects her former life and moves toward complete, if difficult,
independence. Maraini's writing is superb. Its warm and sensual
style gives life to details: the food of the Mediterranean, the
smell of its herbs, the acts of making coffee and making love, the
step-by-step journey of an individual to self-awareness,
self-reliance and independence. Everything is vivid and vibrant.
Maraini's women grow in strength beyond the clamor of political
slogans. The values of understanding, intuition and compassion
effect real change that transcends the wearisome struggle between
the chauvinisms of the political Right and the political
correctness of the Left. A milestone in Italian literature.
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