Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Road to the City

Natalia Ginzburg

3.73/5 (1139 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father’s neglect and her mother’s sadness, she begins to take the dusty road to the city every day, accompanied by Nini, her sweet and mysterious cousin.

When Nini takes a job in a factory and moves in with a city woman, Delia sees another way of being. But when she discovers she’s pregnant, she agrees to marry the father, seduced by the promise of wealth and comfort. Nothing, not even Nini’s desperate declaration of love, can stop her – but her rejection will be his undoing.

The Road to the City is a short, poignant novel about the dreams of youth, and the cruelty it takes to make them come true.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Daunt Books Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0517138131

ISBN13:: 9780517138137

kindle Asin:: B0BSB23469

The Road to the City

Natalia Ginzburg

3.73/5 (1139 ratings)

Read Download

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father’s neglect and her mother’s sadness, she begins to take the dusty road to the city every day, accompanied by Nini, her sweet and mysterious cousin.

When Nini takes a job in a factory and moves in with a city woman, Delia sees another way of being. But when she discovers she’s pregnant, she agrees to marry the father, seduced by the promise of wealth and comfort. Nothing, not even Nini’s desperate declaration of love, can stop her – but her rejection will be his undoing.

The Road to the City is a short, poignant novel about the dreams of youth, and the cruelty it takes to make them come true.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Daunt Books Publishing

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0517138131

ISBN13:: 9780517138137

kindle Asin:: B0BSB23469

More Books

In the Act

Rachel Ingalls

Spadework for a Palace

László Krasznahorkai

Early Light

Osamu Dazai

The Famous Magician

César Aira

The Woman Who Killed the Fish

Clarice Lispector

زندگی واسیلی

Leonid Andreyev

3 Streets

Yōko Tawada

I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

Annie Ernaux

Misunderstanding in Moscow

Simone de Beauvoir

The Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

Humo

José Ovejero