A Woman
  • Published: 21 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241345726
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

A Woman

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21 Jul 2020
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5 Mar 2020
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The heart-wrenching autobiographical novel that paved the way for feminist writers in Italy

'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'

When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed and remarkably ahead of its time, A Woman is a landmark in European feminist writing.
  • Published: 21 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241345726
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for A Woman

The first Italian feminist novel ... her voice brings us back to the present, with the dose of courage needed to freely choose one's destiny

La Repubblica

Powerful

Luigi Pirandello

A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud . . . Readers who like to underline striking passages will need to keep their pencils sharp

John Self, Guardian

What makes A Woman stand out is the rawness of its story ... and the fact that Aleramo was ahead of her time

Caroline Moorehead, TLS

She blurred the boundaries of autobiography and the novel, singular self and narrative other

Selby Wynn Schwartz

Searing . . . astonishingly sharp . . . such a modern book it's hard to believe it was written more than 100 years ago

Laura Waddell, Scotsman