This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.
| ISBN: | 9780141188362 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2007 |
| Author: | Giorgio Bassani, Jamie McKendrick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary |