description: This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.
language: English
title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
titlecomplete: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
genres: Holocaust, Fiction, Italian Literature, Italy, Literature, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, War, Classics, Novels
ratings_count: 11841
places: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna
series: Il romanzo di Ferrara
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: Quartet Books