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Hailed upon publication as a groundbreaking memoir, giving the form “a new dimension, new possibilities, and . . . an aspect that is entirely new” (Times Literary Supplement), Family Sayings is Natalia Ginzburg’s masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Italian literature. Although it asks to be read as fiction, the author, one of Italy’s finest twentieth-century writers, admits that it is highly autobiographical. The book spans the period from the rise of Fascism through World War II (in which her first husband perished at the hands of the Nazis) and its aftermath. Its subject is the other people in Ginzburg’s family. Woven around the inconsequential, revealing remarks that are repeated in a family until they become its affectionate private code, rich in memory and association, this is one of the rare true evocations of a family in modern literature. Family Sayings is at the same time a living history that documents the life of the assimilated Jewish Ginzburg family and the culture to which they belonged. Winner of the Strega Prize—Italy’s Pulitzer for literature—this intimate and candid portrait is no less relevant today than when it was first published in 1963.

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August 1, 2013
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5.5 x 0.46 x 8.25 inches
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Natalia Ginzburg grew up in Turin, Italy, where she worked as a publisher and writer. She was an acclaimed author whose works received the Strega Prize and the Battuta Prize. She passed away in 1991.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcade Publishing; Revised, Original, Translation edition (August 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611457963
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611457964
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.46 x 8.25 inches

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Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories, and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside, or contemporary Rome—all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.

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B. Cabot

Love this book

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2019

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Received this right away and the book was just as described in good condition. I am enjoying this immensely.

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2013

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I enjoyed this book a lot, especially since it was for my world literature class discussing the Mediterranean. It's a great insight into the daily lives of Italian citizens as Mussolini is in power. Often times, we get the image of Italy as purely Fascist during Mussolini's reign, but this book provides a look into the resistance and how anti-Fascists lived during the time.

It does, however, move very slowly, and there is not very much direct discussion of political issues. (Political remarks are more like asides that develop characters.) Most interestingly--and frustratingly for me--the narrator is absent as an active character in the novel. She observes and is rarely mentioned as doing anything. One reading of this might suggest that she intentionally removed herself due to the trauma of growing up in Fascist Italy; regardless, it's a challenging narrative technique to read.

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Darcy

Typeface too small

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022

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Could not read as the typeface was too small.

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Deroy Johnson

It was a disappointment