Penulis: Paola Masino

A versatile intellectual and a remarkable figure in twentieth-century literary and artistic circles, Paola Masino (1908–1989) wrote novels, short stories, poems, librettos, and worked as a translator and as a journalist. Birth and Death of the Housewife is the first of her novels to be translated into English. Marella Feltrin-Morris is Assistant Professor of Italian at Ithaca College.