Family Lexicon
'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.'Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her Italian family, she summoned them in this celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.Giuseppe Levi is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wi…
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Weitere Autoren: Mcphee, Jenny (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-911547-26-6
- EAN: 9781911547266
- Produktnummer: 28838510
- Verlag: Daunt Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 297 KB
Über den Autor
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was born in Palermo, Sicily. She wrote dozens of books including the essay collection The Little Virtues, and the novels All Our Yesterdays, Voices in the Evening and the Strega Prize-winning Family Lexicon. She was involved in political activism throughout her life and served in the Italian parliament from 1983 to 1987.
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