Family Lexicon [electronic resource]
Natalia Ginzburg2018
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'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker 'A glowing light of modern Italian
literature.' -- New York Times 'The places, events, and people in this book are
real. I haven't invented a thing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful
autobiographical novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s.
Homesick for her Italian family, she summoned them in this celebration of the
routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings
that make up every family. Giuseppe Levi is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his
work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds
with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia - yet he cannot be without her.
Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument
and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as
their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy, the Levi
household must become not only a home, but a stronghold agains...
Main title:
Family Lexicon [electronic resource] / Natalia Ginzburg
Author:
Natalia Ginzburg, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Daunt Books, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (303816.0)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781911547266
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
437309
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |