The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Name: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Author: Giorgio Bassani

by Giorgio Bassani

Novel about an Italian Jewish family's doomed attempt to escape persecution

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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.

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