An edition of Lessico famigliare (1963)

Family sayings

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An edition of Lessico famigliare (1963)

Family sayings

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"Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy's great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: "The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing. Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy everything thus invented." A Family Lexicon re-creates with extraordinary objectivity the small world of a family enduring some of the most difficult years of the twentieth century, the period from the rise of Mussolini through World War II (Ginzburg's first husband, who was a member of the resistance, was killed by the Nazis) and its immediate aftermath. Every family has its store of phrases and sayings by which it maintains its sense of what it means to be a family. Such sayings and stories lie at the heart of a great novel about family and history"--

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Carcanet
Language
English
Pages
181

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Subjects
Biography, Italian Authors, Authors, italian, Authors, biography, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Ginzburg, natalia, Jews, Jews--italy--fiction, Jewish women authors, Jewish women authors--italy--fiction, Authors, italian--fiction, World war, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945--italy--fiction, Pq4817.i5 l413 2017, 853/.912, Fiction, biographical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Italy, fiction
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Natalia Ginzburg, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-)
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Italy
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20th century

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Family sayings
1984, Carcanet
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The Things We Used to Say
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Translation of: Lessico famigliare.

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Manchester

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.912, B
Library of Congress
PQ4817.I5 Z4713 1984, PQ4841.O38

The Physical Object

Pagination
181 p. ;
Number of pages
181

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2950863M
Internet Archive
familysayings0000ginz
ISBN 10
0856355046
LCCN
84192075
OCLC/WorldCat
11183194, 12550272
Library Thing
142730
Goodreads
191772

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