by Giorgio Bassani · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416748631
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In the city of Ferrara, the Jewish community lives under the threat of the antisemitism of the fascist government. In this context, the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family, take refuge in their luxurious villa, surrounded by a majestic garden. Alberto and Micòl, the children of the family, invite friends who have been expelled from the local tennis club. A middle-class Jewish young man joins this community seemingly immune to racial laws, where politics and private life converge, and where love arises between him and Micòl. However, fate drags them towards a fateful abyss. This moving 20th-century Italian novel intertwines the individual and collective destiny of Italy at the dawn of World War II.
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.
