Family Sayings

Name: Family Sayings
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ISBN: 9781611457964

ISBN-10: 1611457963

ISBN-13: 9781611457964

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Authors: Natalia Ginzburg

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Hailed upon publication as a groundbreaking memoir, giving the form “a new dimension, new possibilities, and . . . an aspect that is entirely new” (Times Literary Supplement), Family Sayings is Natalia Ginzburg’s masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Italian literature. Although it asks to be read as fiction, the author, one of Italy’s finest twentieth-century writers, admits that it is highly autobiographical. The book spans the period from the rise of Fascism through World War II (in which her first husband perished at the hands of the Nazis) and its aftermath. Its subject is the other people in Ginzburg’s family. Woven around the inconsequential, revealing remarks that are repeated…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy.