The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
of Giorgio Bassani, William Weaver (Translator), Tim Parks (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
Series: Il romanzo di Ferrara #3
Description
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 by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic Jewish family, and especially by their charming daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis becomes a sort of idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years later after the war, the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol, and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls."
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 246 pages
- Publisher Everyman's Library
- Publication Date July 19th 2005
- First Publication 10/28/62
- Language English
- ISBN 9781400044221
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Ferrara (Italy)']
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