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An autobiographical novel which spans the period from the rise of facism through World War II, in which the author's husband died at the hands of the Nazis. The book names names, the family members and political and cultural figures who were family friends and foes.
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Gripping personal account of survival. Ginzberg at her best - philosophical and humorous - in powerful contrast to the madness around her, the unspeakable acts of cruelty and endless political betrayals. Great writing. Good translation.
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This book is one of my absolute favourites and I've read it repeatedly. I was stopped while reading in Cuba by two people excited to see I was reading a book they too loved. Natalia Ginzburg is a master of the understatement. The book is packed with emotion, with politics, with historical reference but delivered in such a way that you could miss it if you're not paying attention. This book inspired me to write and to read much more creative nonfiction. I'd recommend everyone read it.
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I am at a loss to understand how this book could be published in this form, or why anyone could find it interesting. It is a collection of meandering personal reminiscences, largely without structure or insight. It reminds me of a vanity-published autobiography; is Ginzburg so exalted an author than no editor was allowed near this? How can the collection of reviewers quoted on the jacket have found so many good things to say about it?
The author has limited herself to what she can remember, apparently, and so does not fill in anything that she knows happened but does not figure in her memories - the holocaust, for example, or the Allied landings in Italy, or the war really.
The family are Jewish, but it clearly didn't mean very much to them - as seems to have been the case with most other Italian-Jewish memoirs of this period.
I read this quickly, but I'm still sorry for the time I wasted on it.
The author has limited herself to what she can remember, apparently, and so does not fill in anything that she knows happened but does not figure in her memories - the holocaust, for example, or the Allied landings in Italy, or the war really.
The family are Jewish, but it clearly didn't mean very much to them - as seems to have been the case with most other Italian-Jewish memoirs of this period.
I read this quickly, but I'm still sorry for the time I wasted on it.
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