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The Things We Used to Say
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Arcade Pub
Publication date May 5, 1999
Pages 210
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781559704670
ISBN-10 1559704675
Dimensions 1 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $23.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A prize-winning classic of Italian literaure offers an autobiographical, deeply imaginative, and literary exploration of the nature of family, evoked by growing up in Italy during the rise and fall of fascism before and after World War II. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'I have written only what I remember'. Natalia Ginzburg insists that this book, in which she has invented nothing, should be read 'without asking more or less of it than a novel can give'. In it, she turns a novelist's devastatingly observant eye on her parents, her siblings and her own childhood and youth to produce a ruthless, comic and intimate portrait of a family living through dangerous times. Ginzburg's family were actively anti-fascist and her father was Jewish; the novel spans the period from the rise of fascism through the German occupation of Italy, during which Ginzburg's husband died at the hands of the Nazis. Combining the quirkiness of family sayings with the stoicism of personal suffering, this is an engaging and authentic record of survival and loss.

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from Arcade Pub (May 5, 1999)
9781559704670 | details & prices | 210 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $23.95
About: In a memoir spanning the rise of fascism through World War II and its aftermath, the novelist presents a view of Jewish-Italian culture and family life that is both comic and intimate
Paperback
from Carcanet Pr (May 15, 1997)
9781857542936 | details & prices | 180 pages | List price $21.55

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