A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable s
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collectionof novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois love
The fifth book in Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning with his life. 'It struggled to keep itself aloft
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles w
Giorgio Bassani’s six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be.Among the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his
Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second W
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William Wea
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 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-Conti
Suffused with new life by poet Jamie McKendrick, “undoubtedly Bassani’s finest translator yet” (Times Literary Supplement), this seminal work seals Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani’s reputation as “a
