The city and the house

Ginzburg, Natalia

ISBN 10: 0805003924 / ISBN 13: 9780805003925

Published by Distributed by Holt

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0805003924 Little wear on the cover. Bookseller Inventory # Z0805003924Z2

Bibliographic Details

Title: The city and the house

Publisher: Distributed by Holt

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition:Very Good

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Synopsis:

Probes the lives of Lucrezia, mother of five, lover of many; of her good-natured, long-suffering husband Piero, who struggles to keep their family together; and of Giuseppe, setting out to seek a new life in America

About the Author:

Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome—all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.