The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: A Novel (Library of the Holocaust)

Bassani, Giorgio; Weaver, William

ISBN 10: 1567310990 / ISBN 13: 9781567310993

Edité par Fine Communications (edition 1st THUS), 1997

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. N° de réf. du vendeur 1567310990-11-1-29

Synopsis :

Book by Bassani Giorgio Weaver William

Présentation de l'éditeur: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

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 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 an idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: A Novel (...
Éditeur : Fine Communications (edition 1st THUS)
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : 1st THUS.