21%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Within the Walls
Giorgio Bassani
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Within the Walls
Paperback. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. Translator(s): McKendrick, Jamie. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198. Weight in Grams: 368.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his suite of novels depicting life in ... Read more
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his suite of novels depicting life in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141192161
SKU
V9780141192161
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-27
About Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a ... Read more
Reviews for Within the Walls
No one else writes about time like this. Bassani is deeply unsettling and yet a joy to read.
David Herman
Jewish Chronicle
Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity
Ali Smith Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of ... Read more
David Herman
Jewish Chronicle
Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity
Ali Smith Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of ... Read more