It's 1939 in the Liceo Ginnasio Dante in the city of Florence--war is imminent and fascism has held the country in its grip for more than a decade. In this bittersweet novel, Marcella Olschki, the daughter of a Jewish father, must navigate the travails of the end of adolescence at the same time as war threatens to strike, sweeping up all she knows along with it. Una postal de 1939 was first published in 1954 and received the Bagutta Prize for best debut work.