The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Contributors: Tim Parks (Introduction); William Weaver (Translator)
Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: July 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781400044221
Subjects: Italy; Historical - General; Bassani, Giorgio - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - Historical; Literary; Fiction; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fiction / Literary; Ferrara
First sentence: The tomb was big, massive, really imposing: a kind of half-ancient, half-Oriental temple of the sort seen in the sets of Aida and Nabucco in vogue in our opera houses until a few years ago.