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All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
$28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and they move to his village in the south ...Show more
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
$25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
$25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to choke me. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents ...Show more
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