Partisan wedding

de Renata Viganò

"A generation of Italian authors dedicated their lives, their works, and their voices to the primary driving force behind twentieth-century narratives - World War II. Renata Vigano was an active member of the Italian Resistance during World War II, and, like many of her male counterparts, she depicted the actions of the brave people who contributed to and participated in the partisan movement. Unlike her counterparts, however, Vigano vividly portrayed the experiences of women, notably women on the front line, in her posthumously published Matrimonio in brigata, here translated for the first time in English as Partisan Wedding."--BOOK JACKET. "Because of her own role as a partisan, the stories in Partisan Wedding are based on Vigano's personal experiences. Two stories in the collection are specifically autobiographical: "Acquitted" and "My Resistance." Relating her own plight to find her husband, a partisan commander, after his sudden arrest, "Acquitted" aptly conveys Vigano's struggle to maintain her strength in the face of complete helplessness. "My Resistance" is a personal account of her own experiences during the war and the women she met along the way."--BOOK JACKET.