The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Original title: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
first published 1962 Todavia, 2021 paperback
Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
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 evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has long been fascinated from afar...
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