| Author: | Carlo Cassola |
| Title Orig: | La ragazza di Bube |
| Translator: | Marguerite Waldman |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Genre: | Historical fiction |
| Publisher: | Einaudi |
| Pub Date: | 3 August 1960 |
| English Pub Date: | 1 January 1962 |
| Pages: | 242 |
| Isbn: | 9788817113502 |
Bebo's Girl (Italian: '''La ragazza di Bube''') is a historical fiction novel by Italian writer Carlo Cassola which was published in 1960 and was awarded that year’s Premio Strega. Its initial reception was enthusiastic and an English translation by Marguerite Waldman was published in 1962 as Bebo’s Girl. By 1995 the original had been through in 14 editions.[1]
Mara, a young woman from Monteguidi, a small town in the Val d'Elsa, who, in the aftermath of the Liberation, meets the partisan Bube, hero of the Resistance, and falls in love with him.
In 1963 the book was made into a film, also called La ragazza di Bube, directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Claudia Cardinale as Mara.[2]