The Washington Post, August 17th, 2000
FIRST WORDS A Childhood in Fascist Italy By Rosetta Loy Translated From the Italian by Gregory Conti Metropolitan. 186 pp. $22 This slender book is offered as a memoir, but it comes closer to being what William Styron called his own "The Confessions of Nat Turner": a "meditation on history." Though it includes recollections of the author's girlhood in Rome before and during the Second World War, it is chiefly concerned with the treatment of Jews in Italy during that dreadful period and with what she regards as the complicity in this of the country's intellectual community and the Roman Catholi...
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