by Iris Murdoch · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140025590
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«The Italian Girl» is Iris Murdoch's contemporary fiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Edmund had taken refuge in a solitary life to get away from his family, but returns home for his mother's funeral. There, old family conflicts resurface along with new ones, alongside the enigmatic Italian girl, a shifting figure who was like a second mother. That return to the maternal will bring him surprises.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative, particularly those who follow the work of Iris Murdoch.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
