Behind the Door

Name: Behind the Door
Author: Giorgio Bassani

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Giorgio Bassani

Italian author whose linked stories and novels set in the Jewish community of Ferrara constitute a moving elegy for a world destroyed by fascism and the Holocaust. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is his masterpiece.

More by Giorgio Bassani

The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisNovel about an Italian Jewish family's doomed attempt to escape persecution
The Gold-Rimmed SpectaclesNovella exploring desire, masculinity, and social prejudice in small-town Italy
Five Stories of Ferrara
The HeronNovel depicting a man's existential crisis and withdrawal from society