← Giorgio BassaniThe Gold-Rimmed Spectaclesby Giorgio BassaniNovella exploring desire, masculinity, and social prejudice in small-town ItalyFind on Amazon↗About the authorGiorgio BassaniItalian 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 BassaniThe Garden of the Finzi-ContinisNovel about an Italian Jewish family's doomed attempt to escape persecution→Five Stories of Ferrara→The HeronNovel depicting a man's existential crisis and withdrawal from society→Behind the Door→
