Giorgio Bassani

Broschiertes Buch

Within the Walls

Beschreibung

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War.

Autor

Giorgio Bassani (Author) Giorgio 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 The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 140g
• ISBN-13: 9780141192161
• ISBN-10: 014119216X
• Artikelnr.: 42376397

Rezensionen

Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists Guardian