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Voices in the Evening

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Availability:In StockContributor:Natalia Ginzburg, D. M. Low (Translator), Colm Tóibín (Introduction by)Publish date:2021-05-04Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811231008ISBN-10:811231003UPC:9780811231008Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCT02GSBDJ
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?"
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811231008ISBN-10:811231003UPC:9780811231008Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCT02GSBDJ
Ginzburg, Natalia: - Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991), "who authored twelve books and two plays; who, because of anti-Semitic laws, sometimes couldn't publish under her own name; who raised five children and lost her husband to Fascist torture; who was elected to the Italian parliament as an independent in her late sixties--this woman does not take her present conditions as a given. She asks us to fight back against them, to be brave and resolute. She instructs us to ask for better, for ourselves and for our children" (Belle Boggs, The New Yorker).Low, D. M.: - D. M. Low (1890-1972) was a British translator of Italian literature and biographer of Edward Gibbon.Tóibín, Colm: - Colm Toibin is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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