The Road to the City
Ginzburg, Natalia / Alhadeff, Gini
An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too-she is a mass of confusion. She's in a bleak space, lit with the hard clarity of a Pasolini film. Her family is no help: her father is largely absent, her mother is miserable, her sister's unhappily promiscuous, her brothers ar...