Family Lexicon (eBook)

Natalia Ginzburg (Autor)

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2018
Daunt Books (Verlag)
978-1-911547-26-6 (ISBN)

Infos

'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.'Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her Italian family, she summoned them in this celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family. Giuseppe Levi is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home, but a stronghold against fascism. Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about language, memory, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us. 'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk'I'm utterly entranced by Ginzburg's style her mysterious directness, her salutary ability to lay things bare that never feels contrived or cold, only necessary, honest, clear.' -- Maggie Nelson'Her prose style is deceptively simple and very complex. Its effect on the reader is both calming and thrilling that's not so easy to do.' -- Deborah Levy'Ginzburg's beautiful words have such solidity and simplicity. I read her with joy and amazement.' -- Tessa HadleyTranslated by Jenny McPhee

Autor

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was born in Palermo, Sicily. She wrote dozens of books including the essay collection The Little Virtues, and the novels All Our Yesterdays, Voices in the Evening and the Strega Prize-winning Family Lexicon. She was involved in political activism throughout her life and served in the Italian parliament from 1983 to 1987.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2018
• Einführung: Tim Parks
• Übersetzer: Jenny McPhee
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 20th century Italian literature • Anne Enright • autofiction • award winning fiction in translation • biographical • books about italy • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Deborah Levy • Elena Ferrante • Erri de Luca • facism • Italian • italian classics • Italian fiction • Jenny McPhee • Jewish • little virtues • Maggie Nelson • Memoir • Motherhood • Mussolini • My Brilliant Friend • parenting • Rachel Cusk • Rome • Sheila Heti • tessa hadley • The Argonauts • The Lying Life of Adults • The Neapolitan Quartet • Tim Parks • translated fiction • Turin • Winter in the Abruzzi • ww2 • Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 1-911547-26-7 / 1911547267
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911547-26-6 / 9781911547266