{"product_id":"the-novel-of-ferrara-9780393080155","title":"The Novel of Ferrara","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his Northern Italian hometown of Ferrara \"are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste\" (from the Introduction). Now published in English for the first time as the unified masterwork Bassani intended, \u003cem\u003eThe Novel of Ferrara\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Bassani's six classics, fully revised by the author at the end of his life: \u003cem\u003eWithin the Walls\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBehind the Door\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Heron\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Smell of Hay\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters: the respected doctor whose homosexuality is tolerated until he is humiliatingly exposed by an exploitative youth; a survivor of the Nazi death camps whose neighbors' celebration of his return gradually turns to ostracism; a young man discovering the ugly, treacherous price that people will pay for a sense of belonging; the Jewish aristocrat whose social position has been erased; the indomitable schoolteacher, Celia Trotti, whose Communist idealism disturbs and challenges a postwar generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Novel of Ferrara\u003c\/em\u003e memorializes not only the Ferrarese people, but the city itself, which assumes a character and a voice deeply inflected by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs. Suffused with new life by acclaimed translator and poet Jamie McKendrick, this seminal work seals Bassani's reputation as \"a quietly insistent chronicler of our age's various menaces to liberty\" (Jonathan Keates).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBassani, Giorgio:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGiorgio Bassani\u003c\/strong\u003e (1916-2000) was a renowned Italian author, editor, and critic who spent his youth in Ferrara. After brief imprisonment for anti-Fascist activities, he remained in Rome until his death.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcKendrick, Jamie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJamie McKendrick\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator born in Liverpool and living in Oxford, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAciman, André:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAndré Aciman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of several novels including \u003cem\u003eCall Me by Your Name\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFind Me\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHarvard Square\u003c\/em\u003e, the memoir \u003cem\u003eOut of Egypt\u003c\/em\u003e, and two books of essays. He is also the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Proust Project\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he directs the Writers' Institute. Aciman lives with his wife and family in New York City.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503304085778,"sku":"9780393080155","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_196c93ce-eefd-4308-8b4e-56d737565dab.jpg?v=1730787837","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-novel-of-ferrara-9780393080155","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}