num_pages: 166
description: Giovanni Finzi-Contini is both a distinguished geophysicist and prize-winning novelist. In this, his first published novel, he imaginatively reconstructs the history of his maternal grandfather's family in Ferrara from the emancipation of the Jews in newly united Italy to Fascist anti-Semitic persecution and the second world war.
language: English
title: A.M.'s Longest Journey
titlecomplete: A.M.'s Longest Journey (Troubador Italian Studies)
publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd