The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Informationen zum Autor Giorgio Bassani (Author) 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 feature film. Klappentext A new translation of the seminal World War II novel and one of Italy's greatest modern classics by the poet Jamie McKendrick. Zusammenfassung This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio Bassani, Giorgio Bassan Bassani, Bassani Giorgio, Jamie McKendrick
• Assisted by: Jamie McKendrick (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780141188362
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118836-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; Ferrara, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, 1918–1943 (Italian post-war and Fascist period)