The Novel of Ferrara
  • Published: 16 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141939070
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1040

The Novel of Ferrara

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For the first time, the complete masterpiece in English

Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classic books, fully revised by the author at the end of his life: Within the Walls, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Behind the Door, The Heron and The Smell of Hay. These interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters, memorializing not only the Ferrarese people, but the city itself, which assumes a character and a voice deeply inflected by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs.
  • Published: 16 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141939070
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1040
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Also by Giorgio Bassani

The Heron
Behind the Door
Within The Walls
The Smell of Hay
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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Praise for The Novel of Ferrara

Essential reading for anyone thirsting for an understanding of the complex density of Europe's multicultural inheritance

The New York Times Book Review

Bassani, in these cultivated worldly-wise stories, so steeped in tenderness, rage and loss, is like someone returned from the underworld to bear witness

The New York Times Book Review

Exquisite . . . from his boyhood Ferrara and the families he knew, Bassani has carved out a corner of Italy that rises above regionalism with fiction that can stand alongside the most lingering written in Europe to day

The New York Times

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

No one else writes about time like this. Bassani is deeply unsettling and yet a joy to read

David Herman, Jewish Chronicle