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The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442660120
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965. These early works are significant in the context of Ginzburg's wider repertoire. The key themes and ideas occurring therein would come to characterize much of her later work, particularly in terms of her exploration of the difficulties implicit in developing and sustaining meaningful human relationships. Her short stories also provide intriguing insight into the development of her trademark literary style. Including an introduction by the translator and extensive contributions from Alan Bullock, Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds, The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg encourages a deeper understanding of Ginzburg's life's work and compliments those other collections and individual works which are already widely available in English.

A Place to Live

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800303
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Place to Live written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg’s books written over the course of Ginzburg’s lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world—and yet paradoxically, her self-deprecating remarks reveal her deeper confidence in her own eye and writing ability, as well as the weight and nuance of her exploration of the conflict between humane values and bureaucratic rigidity.

The Dry Heart

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228797
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Dry Heart written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?

Family Sayings

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559700276
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Family Sayings written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Virtues

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628729023
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Little Virtues written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review

Voices in the Evening

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231011
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Voices in the Evening written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”

Family and Borghesia

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375087
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Family and Borghesia written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodò, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up. Borghesia, about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. “She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse,” thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg’s characters, beginning to age out of youth: “Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back.”

The City and the House

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The City and the House written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a family is told through the history of a house. This novel unfolds through letters, the life of the family parallels the fate of the house. As it is sold, the family fragments, and although each protagonist tries to recover happiness, they are each now on their own.

The Road to the City

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811234762
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Road to the City written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too—she is a mass of confusion. She’s in a bleak space, lit with the hard clarity of a Pasolini film. Her family is no help: her father is largely absent; her mother is miserable; her sister’s unhappily promiscuous; her brothers are in a separate masculine world. Only her cousin Nini seems to see her. She falls into disgrace and then “marries up,” but without any joy, blind to what was beautiful right before her own eyes. The Road to the City was Ginzburg’s very first work, originally published under a pseudonym. “I think it might be her best book,” her translator Gini Alhadeff remarked: “And apparently she thought so, too, at the end of her life, when assembling a complete anthology of her work for Mondadori.

The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099203
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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All Our Yesterdays

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728116
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book All Our Yesterdays written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg’s novels, terrible things happen—suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings. But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel, adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that, to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming. All Our Yesterdays gives a sharp portrait of a society hungry for change, but betrayed by war. During the period described in the novel, Natalia Ginzburg was married to the writer Leone Ginzburg. Because of his underground activities, he was interned under Mussolini’s reign, along with his family, in a restricted area in the Abruzzi. When the Ginzburgs later moved to Rome, Leone was arrested and tortured by the fascists, and killed, leaving Natalia alone to raise her three children. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Valentino and Sagittarius

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374757
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Valentino and Sagittarius written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century's best Italian novelists. Valentino and Sagittarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg’s most celebrated works: tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of her characteristic mordant humor, keen psychological insight, and unflinching moral realism. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents, who have no doubt that their handsome young son will prove “a man of consequence.” Nothing that Valentino does—his nights out on the town, his failed or incomplete classes—suggests there is any ground for that confidence, and Valentino’s sisters view their parents and brother with a mixture of bitterness, stoicism, and bemusement. Everything becomes that much more confused when, out of the blue, Valentino finds an enterprising, wealthy, and strikingly ugly wife, who undertakes to support not just him but the whole family. Sagittarius is another story of misplaced confidence recounted by a wary daughter, whose mother, a grass widow with time on her hands, moves to the suburbs, eager to find new friends. Brassy, bossy, and perpetually dissatisfied, especially when it comes to her children, she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, and soon the two women are planning to open an art gallery. But knowing better than everyone, it turns out, is not that different from knowing nothing at all.

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141985623
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

Family Lexicon

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590178386
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Family Lexicon written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn’t provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini’s Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. “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 [it],” Ginzburg tells us at the start. “The places, events, and people are all real.”

This Other Salt

Author : Aamer Hussein
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567940
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book This Other Salt written by Aamer Hussein and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gaps between memory, mourning and desire in the title story; in 'The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger' a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta in 'The Blue Direction'. Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft. 'Extraordinarily controlled, written in a tactile, musical prose, with a very individual sense of beauty.' -- Amit Chaudhuri 'Each story, remarkable in both expansiveness and precision, sings with heartbreak, intelligence and elegy. A stunning collection.' -- Kamila Shamsie 'Poetic perfection ... Drawing on legend, history, memoir, literature and film, Hussein's stories are meant to be cupped in both hands and savoured slowly, like a cup of cardamom chai.' -- Guardian 'These stories are a treat for readers.' -- Newsline

Not to Read

Author : Alejan Zambra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910695647
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Not to Read written by Alejan Zambra and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City and the House

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728965
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The City and the House written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated new package for Natalia Ginzburg's classic fiction 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 the Allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among her lovers—and perhaps the father of one of her children—is Giuseppe. After the sale of Le Margherite, the characters wander aimlessly as if in search of a lost paradise. What was once rooted, local, and specific has become general and common, a matter of strangers and of pointless arrivals and departures. And at the edge of the novel are people no longer able to form any sustained or sustaining relationships. Here, once again, Ginzburg pulls us through a thrilling and true exploration of the disintegration of family in modern society. She handles a host of characters with a deft touch and her typical impressionist hand, and offers a story full of humanity, passion, and keen perception.