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A Place to Live: And Other Selected Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Recognised as one of the foremost Italian writers of the twentieth century, and one of the most eloquent and incisive commentators on postwar Italy, Ginzburg was never reluctant to take unpopular or controversial positions. Here are her autobiographical essays on being a writer, a mother, and a displace ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Written in 1952, this is one of the great books by Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose husband was atrociously murdered by the Nazis in 1944. She herself, the daughter of a distinguished Jewish intellectual family, was an active antifascist, but this is not an obviously political or polemical novel ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and they move to his village in the south ...Show more
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Family and Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, two novellas chronicling domestic life, isolation and the passing of time. Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their ...Show more
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.'Mic ...Show more
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to choke me. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents ...Show more