Voices in the Evening

A short novel describing the decadence of an agrarian italian dynasty from the point of view of a girl engaged in a lame love affair with one of the last decendants thereof. Like her other short novels ("The way to the city" and "This is how it happened" - I don't really know under what titles they were published in the US), the hero is a young woman who struggles for independece but pays a high price. I won't delude you, her writing is bleak and melancholic. Don't expect happy endings or too much optimism, you'll have to settle for a pure voice telling you in a unique style sad but wise and sensitive stories.