num_pages: 208
description: Published just months before the author's suicide in 1950, Among Women Only has since become one of Pavese's most sought-after novels. In this classic, a successful couturier returns to Turin, the city in which she grew up, at the end of World War II. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, including the charismatic Rosetta, whose tragic death forms the novel's climax. But Turin itself is at the heart of the story, its pervading melancholy deftly rendered by a master craftsman.
language: English
title: Among Women Only
titlecomplete: Among Women Only (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Roman, European Literature, Italy, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1877
places: Turin
publisher: Peter Owen Publishers