The Garden of the Finzi-Continis topic

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) is a historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Mussolini until the start of World War II. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is considered the best of the series of novels that Bassani produced about the lives of Italian Jews in the northern Italian city of Ferrara. Although the novel focuses on... full article at wikipedia