The Smell of Hay
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2014
Summary
Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these haunting stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man’s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life’s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192127 |
| Author: | Giorgio Bassani, Jamie McKendrick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists
Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists * Guardian *
About The Author
Giorgio Bassani
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.
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