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The War Ends At Four

  • Family novel
  • Categories:Women's Fiction
  • Language:English(Translation Services Available)
  • Publication date:May,2023
  • Pages:210
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  • Text Color:Black and white
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"It’s hard to say which comes more to sparkling life in Rosanna Staffa’s magnificent debut: the rich cast of characters, or the city of Milan they inhabit. Papoozi, Tito, Renata, you’ll feel you’ve lived and lost with them, and been found again. Their lives are beautiful, heartbreaking, unforgettable. The entire novel is. You won’t be able to put it down once you pick it up, so plan accordingly. And look for more brightness from this rising star. I’m already impatient." —Peter Geye, author of The Ski Jumpers

"This is an extraordinary novel of glance and gesture--one of the finest I've ever read. How to know your essential self? How to know that of another? If you're a galloping reader, Horseman, pass by. Here, a warm eye is cast on the mille-seconds of feeling and meaning--the real stuff of life. Stay, read on: All your senses, attention itself, will be enriched." —Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife; Four Spirits; The Fountain of St. James Court, or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman

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This is a bravura performance." ~Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell

THE WAR ENDS AT FOUR explores the quest of a perpetual outsider looking for a true home while coming to terms with the Italy she left behind and the America she found. Renata, an Italian acupuncturist in Minneapolis, falls madly in love with a charismatic actor. Once married, she discovers his passion is not focused on her alone. With her marriage and her small acupuncture clinic in crisis, she is called to her father's deathbed in Milan. There Renata again faces the slights she suffered in childhood as the daughter of an immigrant from Naples. Gripped by grief and anxiety over her future, she discovers that her father, a survivor of WWII, believed until the end in risk-taking as a life-affirming necessity. With newfound courage, Renata stumbles into the lure of an old love and the magic of a new one.

Author

Rosanna Staffa is an Italian-born author. Her work can be found in Best Short Fictions 2021, The Sun, Tampa Review, Gargoyle, and other literary magazines. She is the winner of 2020 TSR Nonfiction Prize, a Pushcart nominee, and a McKnight Recipient. She is a member of The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. The War Ends at Four is her debut novel.

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