Giving life to the characters that would shape his work, these poignant, poetic stories show Bassani as one of the greatest writers of - and witnesses to - the twentieth century.
Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film. Jamie McKendrick is an award-winning poet and translator. His translations of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and the Smell of Hay are already available, and he is currently translating the rest of the Ferrara Cycle anew for Penguin Modern Classics.
Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists
*Guardian*
Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and
McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals
resonance and generosity
*Ali Smith*
No one else writes about time like this. Bassani is deeply
unsettling and yet a joy to read.
*Jewish Chronicle*
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