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A Place to Live: And Other Selected Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Politics
Recognised as one of the foremost Italian writers of the twentieth century, and one of the most eloquent and incisive commentators on postwar Italy, Ginzburg was never reluctant to take unpopular or controversial positions. Here are her autobiographical essays on being a writer, a mother, and a displace ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
Written in 1952, this is one of the great books by Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose husband was atrociously murdered by the Nazis in 1944. She herself, the daughter of a distinguished Jewish intellectual family, was an active antifascist, but this is not an obviously political or polemical novel ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg; Angus Davidson (Translator); Peg Boyers (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
Written in 1952, this is one of the great books by Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose husband was atrociously murdered by the Nazis in 1944. She herself, the daughter of a distinguished Jewish intellectual family, was an active antifascist, but this is not an obviously political or polemical novel ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and they move to his village in the south ...Show more
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scien ...Show more
Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Biography Memoir
Hailed upon publication as a groundbreaking memoir, giving the form a new dimension, new possibilities, and . . . an aspect that is entirely new (Times Literary Supplement), Family Sayings is Natalia Ginzburg s masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Italian literature. Although it asks to be read as ...Show more
Family and Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Carmine, an architect, and Ida, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninett ...Show more
Happiness, as Such by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.'Mic ...Show more
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
Category: Fiction
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more