A Very Cold Winter

"Cause for celebration."—Jhumpa Lahiri

A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy’s most significant women writers.

Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored her early work, she continued as an active member in the anti-fascist movement while living abroad in Egypt, writing pamphlets and making daily broadcasts from Radio Cairo agains...