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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first US publication of two 1977 novellas by painterly Italian minimalist Ginzburg (No Way; The City and the House). Set in modern Rome, both Family and Borghesia sketch the bittersweet passage of lives lived in gauzy tombs of indecision and gentle resignation. Carmine, the handsome, 40-ish architect of Family, cannot free himself from a loveless marriage to the pretty but vacuous Ninnetta. He consoles himself by gravitating back to the cluttered...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 134 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In these spare, haunting novellas, Natalia Ginzburg displays again the narrative skill, resonantly understated style, themes, and wisdom that have mad her "Italy's foremost woman writer and...one of Italy's finest writers of any kind" (Newsday) Both stories recount the breakup of families and the souring of the dreams that gave them coherence. Each is told in the quiet voice of a young woman, the daughter and sister whom family life has somehow left...
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