Gemma Wren: Her Side Of The Story

When she refuses the marriage proposal from a neighboring farmer, she is sent back to rome to tend to her ailing father. I found it utterly riveting, her side of the story is a powerful, intimate and insightful exploration of the female psyche, of the desire to be and do more than meet long outdated representations. There's been a resurgence of her work given her influence on elena ferrante and this year a new, lengthier translation of her novel “her side of the story” has been published. As she looks back on her life, alessandra corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in italy, the resistance, and the fall of mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her. As she looks back on her life, alessandra corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in italy, the resistance, and the fall of mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her.

Alessandra witnesses her mother, an aspiring concert pianist, suffer from the inability to escape her oppressive marriage. Later, she is sent away to live with her father's relatives in the. Growing up in a crowded apartment block in 1930s rome, she watches as her mother’s dreams of becoming a concert pianist are stifled by marriage. When her father’s traditional family try to. As she looks back on her life, alessandra corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in italy, the resistance, and the fall of mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her.