Natalia Ginzburg, Author Seaver Books $0 (134p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0683-4
Each of the narrators of these two novellas of Italian family life is a studious young woman in her 20s whose relationship to her mother carries important weight. In the first tale it is affectionate, in the second harshly judgmental. Valentino, the
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author Seaver Books $0 (111p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0856-2
Woman of letters and member of the Italian Parliament, Ginzburg ( All Our Yesterdays , The City and the House ) has, in the two novellas that comprise this volume, rendered the essence of byzantine Italian family life and the ironies of existence....
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author, D. M. Low, Translator Arcade Publishing $16.95 (171p) ISBN 978-1-55970-016-0
In another of the understated, richly evocative novels for which she is known, Ginzburg takes us into an Italian village whose almost claustrophobic atmosphere reflects its residents' entanglements as they cope in various ways with the creeping...
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author, Frances Frenaye, Translator Arcade Publishing $16.95 (149p) ISBN 978-1-55970-052-8
The protagonists of these two astute, finely burnished novellas by the eminent Italian author are young women who learn to accept the cultural lesson that deems it their duty to secure a man. Courtship and marriage become battlefields where they are
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Natalia Ginzburg, trans. from the Italian by Jenny McPhee. New York Review Books, $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59017-838-6
The lore of her large, loving, and discordant family provides rich material for Ginzburg’s engrossing autobiographical novel, covering the years of the Italian writer’s childhood in 1920s Italy, her adolescence, first marriage, World War II, and her
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author, Dick David, Translator Seaver Books $13 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0077-1
Considered among the best writers in contemporary Italy, Ginzburg should appeal to a wide American audience with this collection of essays, in Davis's empathetic translation. There are 11 entries reprinted from Italian journals; the latest, dated...
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author, Dick Davis, Translator Seaver Books $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0392-5
The city is Rome, where the characters brood over the lost paradise of Le Margherite, the country house where they all once gathered, drawn by the warmth of Lucrezia and her husband Piero, before the marriage broke up over the latest of Lucrezia's...
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Natalia Ginzburg, Author, Marie Evans, Translator Seaver Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0613-1
As social history, with something of the flavor and immediacy of fiction, this story of a famous family stretching from 1762 to 1907 is interesting and well done. The book skillfully stitches together biographical facts and numerous family letters,...
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Natalia Ginzburg, trans. from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2799-5
This magnificent posthumous novel from Ginzburg (1916–1991), set in the early ’70s, is told almost entirely through a series of letters from one disconnected Italian family member to another. At the center of the epistolary drama is Michele, the son
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Natalia Ginzburg, trans. from the Italian by D.M. Low. New Directions, $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3100-8
Ginzburg (Family Lexicon) takes a close look at the effects of fascism on an Italian family in this engrossing novel first published in 1961 and reissued with an introduction by Colm Tóibín, who sheds light on Ginzburg’s interest in her characters’ “
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