Bassani Giorgio - The Garden Of The Finzi - Continis - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The haunting classic novel of Fascist Italy on the brink of World War II made into an Academy Award - winning film The Finzi - Continis are an aristocratic Jewish family who live an insular life behind the walls of their estate in the northern Italian city of Ferrera. The narrator a young middle - class Jew has been intrigued by the Finzi - Continis from boyhood and especially by the two children Alberto and Micol. Not until he is twenty - two in the autumn of 1938, is he invited to enter their private world a place seemingly immune from the racial laws of Fascist Italy. Thirteen years after the war he traces his intricate relationship with the beautiful Micol and shares the predicament of all the Ferrarese Jews on the eve of their destruction. Critically acclaimed and award - winning The Garden of the Finzi - Continis is an unforgettable wrenching novel that re - creates a tragic era in history.
Title: The Garden Of The Finzi - Continis
Author(s): Bassani Giorgio
Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
Barcode: 9780156345705
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 12/1/1977
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction