Open City

OPEN CITY Seven Writers and Rome
Edited with an Introduction by William Weaver
An anthology of the writers Weaver admired most (Silone, Moravia, Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Emilio Gadda), this book is a comprehensive sampling of the political seriousness and lyrical realism which were the gift of the Italians to modern writing.

William Weaver, who drove an ambulance for the British Army during the war, arrived in Rome in the late 1940s, fell in love with the Italian language and literature, and found a career in translating the writers he met there.

Steerforth Italia is part of Steerforth Press, an independent press committed to publishing serious works of prose, both fiction and non-fiction. They produce their books the old-fashioned way, using only high quality acid-free papers, and all of their hardcover titles are held together with Smythe-sewn bindings. Visit www.steerforth.com for more information.