Woman AT WAR is the diary of a woman\'s growing self-awareness.
A milestone in Italian literature..
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.
Maraini\'s women grow in strength beyond the clamor of political slogans.
Everything is vivid and vibrant.
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.
Maraini\'s writing is superb.
Back in Rome, Vannina rejects her former life and moves toward complete, if difficult, independence.
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.
When he returns to work in a garage in Rome, Vannina travels to Naples with Suna, a friend she has made on vacation.
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.
Woman AT WAR is the diary of a woman\'s growing self-awareness
