The Heron
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141192147
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99

The Heron

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3 May 2018
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15 May 2018
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A new translation of Bassani's haunting last novel: a portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning with life and loneliness

In the fifth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara, Bassani follows a day in the slipping life of Edgardo Limentani, a man of forty-five who sets out with a shooting party into the watery countryside surrounding Ferrara. As the day wears on, his malaise grows, seeping from his thoughts and feelings into the natural world around him, until it reaches an intolerable pitch. This taut depiction of one man's reckoning with his unfulfilling life evokes in cinematic detail how inescapable loneliness turns to despair.
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141192147
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for The Heron

Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists

Guardian

Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity

Ali Smith

Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force that will be around for a long time

The New York Times

Bassani's masterpiece

The New York Times
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