Within the Walls [electronic resource] : Five Stories from Ferrara
Giorgio Bassani2016
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas,
which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of
intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor
seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house
arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second
World War.
In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that
would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his suite of novels depicting life in the
city. Moving, poetic, atmospheric and artfully observed, this collection is a
distillation of Bassani's genius. It won the Strega Prize on first publication
as Cinque Storie Ferraresi in 1956, and established Bassani as one of the
greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its...
Main title:
Within the Walls [electronic resource] : Five Stories from Ferrara / Giorgio Bassani
Author:
Giorgio Bassani, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (416 pages,)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141938981
Language:
English
BRN:
428805
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |