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Author: Natalia Ginzburg ,
D.M. Low ,
Colm Tóibín
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.145kg
ISBN: 9780811231008
ISBN 10: 0811231003
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 25 May 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The concepts, emotions and characters in her books are complex and unforgettable. -- Laurie Anderson - New York Times Sharp and lively. -- Lydia Davis 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 Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like. -- Rachel Cusk Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her. -- Zadie Smith Rarely does Ginzburg directly address politics-fascism, in particular-but its shadow hangs over the book just like it hangs over the characters. The result is profound and profoundly moving. As deceptively diffuse as it is meticulously observed, Ginzburg's novel is a gem. -- Kirkus
Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her.--Zadie Smith 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 The concepts, emotions and characters in her books are complex and unforgettable.--Laurie Anderson
Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her. -- Zadie Smith 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 Sharp and lively. -- Lydia Davis The concepts, emotions and characters in her books are complex and unforgettable. -- Laurie Anderson - New York Times
Author Information
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). D. M. Low (1890-1972) was a British translator of Italian literature and biographer of Edward Gibbon. Colm Tóibín 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.
