The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Author

Giorgio Bassani

Original Work

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Translator

Jamie McKendrick

Language

English

Year

2007

Publisher

Penguin

Country

United States

Pages

256

ISBN

978-0141188362

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"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."--Provided by publisher.— Google Books