{"product_id":"9780141192161-within-the-walls","title":"Within the Walls","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the \u003ci\u003eRomanzo di Ferrara, \u003c\/i\u003ehis suite of novels depicting life in the city. Moving, poetic, atmospheric and artfully observed, this collection is a distillation of Bassani's genius. It won the Strega Prize on first publication as \u003ci\u003eCinque Storie Ferraresi\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956, and established Bassani as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most uncompromising, merciful and merciless writer' Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30341211881569,"sku":"9780141192161","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34319786.jpg?v=1748820579","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141192161-within-the-walls","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}