The time of indifference

Alberto Moravia

Original title: Indifferenti

Translated by Tami Calliope first published 1953 Steerforth Press, 2000 310 pages

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"Set in Rome, The Time of Indifference tells a deceptively simple story. Five characters are cast loose on the sea of modern life - obsessed with what they want, what they feel they are owed, the wrongs that have been done them, their loneliness. The intrigues of these family members and lovers serve to expose the hollow core of bourgeois society in the early twentieth century, and what Moravia destroys forever in t...

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Tami Calliope 1 printing we hold · 2000 · Steerforth Press

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The time of indifference edition · 2000 · Steerforth Press · 310 pages
Ravnodushnye ; Rimli︠a︡nka edition · 1993 · Veche · 605 pages
Time of Indifference paperback · 1982 · Playboy Paperbacks · 304 pages · 9780867210149
The time of indifference edition · 1975 · Greenwood Press · 303 pages
Los indiferentes edition · 1973 · Plaza & Janés · 355 pages
The time of indifference edition · 1970 · Penguin · 302 pages

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