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Behind the Door by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.'School is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young teenage boy growing up in the provincial town of Ferrara. But as the everyday classroom and playground dramas ar ...Show more
Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani; I. Quigly (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quartet Encounters Ser.
This story takes place largely in the garden of a wealthy Jewish family in Ferrara where young Jews meet to play tennis after being forced out of the local club by Fascists. The garden becomes an island of civilization in a brutal world.
The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Classic Fiction
Giorgio Bassanis acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Awardwinning film in 1970, The Garden of the FinziContinis is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar I ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Aw ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award--winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi--Continis "is a richly evocati ...Show more
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him p ...Show more
The Heron by Giorgio Bassani; Jamie McKendrick (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting ...Show more
The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani; Jamie McKendrik (Translator); André Aciman
Category: Fiction
Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classic books, fully revised as a single vo ...Show more
The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani; Jamie McKendrick (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classic books, fully revised as a single vo ...Show more