Tomorrow or Never (ePub)
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Set in 1930s Fascist Italy, the book focuses on the life of a young southern Italian peasant woman. In recounting the events in her life from 1932-1937, the story explores the power of strong traditions, Fascist policies and both regional and social prejudices in trying to crush her hopes of finding a better life.
It is a historical novel with considerable elements of romance and women's fiction as it is centered upon a strong female lead character; she is a young woman with ideas we would consider modern, yet born before her time and into both a society and period of history that were wholly alien to those ideas.
Historical Content it is set in a reasonably accurate political and period framework, researched from RJB Bosworth's book "Mussolini's Italy", Carlo Levi's account of his political exile in southern Italy, "Christ Stopped at Eboli", and "How Fascism Treated Women" by Victoria De Grazia, to name the three key sources.
Romance content a central feature of the story is how the traditions, culture and prejudice of the time influence the protagonist's life. Since marriage was the main occupation of women, personal relationships are prominent. There is no cheap eroticism or Mills and Boon style material, but there are several love stories.
Women's Fiction content as Barbara Taylor Bradford's "A Woman of Substance" looked reasonably seriously at the lot of working class English women early last century, this work examines the life of women in 1930s Italy. It is feminist in both outlook and spirit, meaning that it seeks to show what a woman is truly capable of, and how so often members of the fairer sex are marginalized, ignored and ill-treated in male-dominated societies.
This book was written to entertain, while looking at rarely explored aspects of Italian life in one of Italy's most difficult historical periods. It is not a work of literature per se, but it is serious in its intent, carefully crafted, and full of ideas, themes and imagery that would not be out of place in a literary work.
I lived in a small, tightly knit community of immigrant Italians where everyone knew (or wanted to know!) everyone else's business. It was here that I began my love affair with 'stories'. The truth about how so-and-so came to escape the mafia in Sicily. The gossip about why the lady next door never got married. The scandal of the family on the corner.
The culture was predominantly that of southern Italian peasantry. Boys, the pride of the family, could do what they wanted; girls, the mainstay of the family, were expected to get married. Education for a boy was important so he could get a good job. Education for a girl was necessary so she could snare an educated man. Being pretty and obedient, being a 'good girl' until marriage, and being a good wife were all that a female was expected to be. All this probably sounds like something out of a 'classic' novel you were forced to study in school, but I can assure you it was VERY REAL in my neighborhood in the 1960s and 70s. Our luck was that we were the first generation to have the chance of a university education, and to be able to break away from this.
I did. My parents, although desperate for me to be settled and secure, were very enlightened and allowed me to follow my own heart, for which I am eternally grateful. A bachelor's degree was not enough for me; I was straight off to graduate school to get a PhD in Organic Chemistry instead of getting a
Wanderlust then took over my budding career as a research scientist and I went to Milan, Italy to work for a large food company. It was the 1980s, and the city was bustling and fashionable and so different from what I had known in New York! It was here that the seeds of my book were planted, fertilized by all those stories from my youth and watered by the everyday lives of people I met.
After three years, I returned to America and began working for another...
- Autor: Maria Martin
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2017, Englisch
- Verlag: Maria Martin
- ISBN-10: 1370362056
- ISBN-13: 9781370362059
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2017
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- Grösse: 3.13 MB
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