Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman, (Paperback)

from wandering_star

In Portrait Of The Mother, a young pregnant woman walks through Rome, on her way to a concert in a church. She is German, and it's January 1943. She is waiting in Rome for her husband to return from duty on the African front, and as she walks through the city her thoughts circle around in the way...

from teresa1953

This enthralling story, kindly sent to me by the publishers, centres around a single afternoon in January 1943. A heavily pregnant young woman is in the "eternal city" of Rome. We learn that she is German and is residing in the capital because her husband has returned from the war due to a leg in...

from lkernagh

Evocative is the word I will use to describe this beautifully written story. Okay, I would use the word sublime as well. Introspective and observational in nature, Delius has captured the essence of a 19-year-old German woman, 8-months pregnant and adrift "in the dangerous sea of the hospitable a...

from drewsof

The thing about this isn't that I found the book to be bad - it's simply that I didn't enjoy or even really register the reading of it. It was a stone skipping across the pond of my literary experience: a few phrases or thoughts clip the surface here or there before gliding in smoothly and sinkin...

from wandering_star

In Portrait Of The Mother, a young pregnant woman walks through Rome, on her way to a concert in a church. She is German, and it's January 1943. She is waiting in Rome for her husband to return from duty on the African front, and as she walks through the city her thoughts circle around in the way...