19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. Moravia was born in Rome in 1907 and became foreign correspondent for several newspapers in London and Paris. He now lives in Rome and is a well-established writer.
- ISBN10 0586042415
- ISBN13 9780586042410
- Publish Date 22 January 1976 (first published December 1956)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English