{"product_id":"the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-isbn-9781400044221","title":"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love  and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic  of modern Italian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade into an Academy Award—winning film in 1970, \u003ci\u003eThe  Garden of the Finzi—Continis \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar  Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has  long been fascinated from afar by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic  Jewish family, and especially by their daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that  he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather  there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis  becomes an idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years after the war,  the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol,  and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching  portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls.\u003c\/p\u003e“Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Curiously haunting and poetic . . . Like Proust, a novelist to whom he is inevitably compared, Bassani is a specialist in decadence and nostalgia.” –\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bassani looms large in the Italian literary scene . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/i\u003e] is an honest book, and tells with a kind of probing tenderness a true story of sensitive and vulnerable youth in a somber decade.” –\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/i\u003e is first and foremost a love story and on quite a different level from anything else Bassani wrote . . . Beneath every other theme and concern, and whether or not prompted by the political situation, the question [the novel] quite explicitly ask[s] is: \u003cbr\u003ewhat does it mean to have lived?” –from the new Introduction by Tim Parks\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFive Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls)\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Strega Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Weaver was an award-winning poet and translator. He died in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302979555557,"sku":"NP9781400044221","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400044221_224a9ca0-9266-46ef-9023-b0143afdbb55.jpg?v=1767739470","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-isbn-9781400044221","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}