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The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Aw ...Show more
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
$20.00 AUD
$24.99 (19% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange di ...Show more
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