"We teach our children little virtues instead of the great ones; thrift instead of generosity, caution instead of courage, shrewdness not frankness, tact rather than love. I think they should be taught the great ones," writes Natalia Ginzburg in this superb collection of her finest short works. Each essay is a gem, written in Ms. Ginzburg's unique style and tone: practical, sometimes even brusque, understated in the midst of the sorrows and joys of life it recounts.

Depicts the author's experiences growing up in an assimilated Jewish family in Italy during the 1930s and 1940s

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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: One of Ginzburg's finest novels, 'Voices in the Evening'('Le Voci della sera') was first published in its original Italian in 1961.

Essays by the Italian author of The Things We Used to Say discuss her roles as a writer and a mother, her displacement during World War II, her struggles with deprivation in postwar Italy, her witness to an infant's confiscation from its adoptive parents, and her travel experiences. (view table of contents)

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)

Product Description: This book examines the various elements of Natalia Ginzburg's writing, including the development of her humorously pessimistic view of the human condition from the early short stories, through the novels, plays and essays of her middle years, to her most recent work focusing on the older generation...read more

Product Description: Each of the two novellas is narrated by a young woman who is in some way betrayed by, or the betrayer of, romantic love.