Lies and Sorcery
Three generations of Sicilian women, narrated by a descendant who says at the outset that the family stories are lies. Published 1948, unabridged in English at last.
Morante first novel, published in 1948 and only now translated unabridged, follows three generations of Sicilian women through a narrator who admits at the outset that the family stories are lies. Eight hundred pages of deliberate unreliability, and long enough that the reader stops trying to establish what actually happened.
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Tyler Cowen
The kind of long novel that women on average will like much more than men do? If someone said to me they thought it was excellent, I would not feel they had bad taste. For me the narrative strayed too far from anything I cared about, other than fineries about the characters.
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