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  • Published: 1 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141192161
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

Within The Walls





A new translation of Bassani's award winning short story collection, 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, and the only witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. Five unforgettable stories in which Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform his much loved sequence of Ferrara novels. Moving, poetic, atmospheric and artfully observed, this collection is a distillation of Bassani's genius. It won the Strega Prize on first publication as Cinque Storie Ferraresi in 1956, and established Bassani as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.

  • Published: 1 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141192161
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Within The Walls

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
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