Rozalia Alone"is the story of a young girl's ability to navigate
through different cultures and mentalities during shattering
historic events. Born in Romania to a Christian Mother and a Jewish
Father, she experiences the horrors and atrocities of Pogroms and
World War II. Through the combination of sheer luck and the
flexibility of a contortionist with an inordinate appetite for
life, she escapes to Brazil. While she discovers the new continent,
her sensuality is awakened by a man older than herself. Her search
for the aunt who prepared her intellectual development in childhood
and arranged for her escape, leads ultimately to a playful
relationship with a husband whose universe is radically unlike her
own. Permanently bruised, unable to forget the atrocities she has
witnessed, Rozalia eventually finds motivation and success in her
work. A spectator to greed, corruption, treachery and crime, she
becomes involved in the quest for justice. She wins her fight, not
in the courts of law, but by surviving life's tribulations with
irony and humor. "An engaging, disturbing, charming, elegant,
teasing, lush, lean and altogether desirable writing. I was moved,
I was pleased, I was teased, I did laugh." Clinton Smullyan
Bibliophile "One has known Rosita Fanto as an artist. We knew her
as a memoirist. And now we know her to be a genuine novelist. And
in fact an epic one. I was not prepared for what turns out to be
the sweep of her tale, from the thirties in Romania to Brazil and
Europe, from rural and urban Romania to the jungles of Brazil and
the heights of luxury in Rio, London and the south of France over a
span of decades. It could all make a fascinating movie or
miniseries-and should. Morris Beja Author of James Joyce: A
Literary Life, Film and Literature, and other books. Professor
Emeritus, The Ohio State University
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