Within the Walls
Five Stories from Ferrara
$31.52
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
A new translation of Bassani’s award-winning short story collection, 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, and the only witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. Five unforgettable stories in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192161 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014119216X |
| Author: | Giorgio Bassani, Jamie McKendrick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Powerful new translations … Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick’s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity
Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists * Guardian *
Powerful new translations … Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick’s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity – Ali Smith
No one else writes about time like this. Bassani is deeply unsettling and yet a joy to read. – David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *
About The Author
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.
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