Oh, América

Overview

The year was 1946. A young, educated, multilingual arrived in the United States to be reunited with her husband, an American officer whom she married in Italy at the end of the war. Her journey begins on ship filled with the wives of other American soldiers, all doing the same thing. The "abnormality" of that trip could not have been anticipated. Oh, América draws a picture of this era in a lucid and humorous way and shows a nation as large as it is contradictory, representing an entire generation of women that rose through the ruins of World War II. Marcella Olschki may have only written two novels, but they proved to be enough to consider her one of the most notable names in Italian literature of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Marcella Olschki was a lawyer, a fashion designer, and a journalist. She is the author of Terza Liceo 1939, which won the Bagutta Award for Best Debut in 1954.