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Two Women (original title in Italian: La Ciociara) is a 1957 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are attacked and the virgin daughter raped, the daughter suffers PTSD.
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Two Women (Italian: La ciociara [la tʃoˈtʃaːra], rough...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Two Women (original title in Italian: La Ciociara) is a 1957 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are attacked and the virgin daughter raped, the daughter suffers PTSD.
Two Women, novel by Alberto Moravia, published in Italian in 1957 as La ciociara. Based partially on Moravia’s own experiences during World War II, the novel tells the story of Cesira, a strong-willed widow who is forced to flee Rome in 1943 with her 18-year-old daughter Rosetta.
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Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson (Translator), Ann McGarrell (Editor) 4.06. 3,289 ratings228 reviews. FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting ...
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Two Women —which was based on the novel by Alberto Moravia—is a tale of survival in war-torn Italy in the early 1940s. Cesira (played by Loren) and her teenage daughter, Rosetta (Eleonora Brown), are on the run, fleeing the Allied bombing raids on Rome.
25 lug 2023 · “Two Women” was based on Alberto Moravia’s 1957 novel “La ciociara”, which was inspired by his personal experiences during WWII.The book’s title, “La ciociara”, became the film’s title in Italy, which loosely translates to “The Woman from Ciociaria” (Ciociaria was a term for a rural, mountainous province in central Italy).
