Natalia Ginzburg - Libros y biografía

'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker 'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times 'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.' Natalia Ginzburg...

'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' -- Lara Feigel, Guardian 'Ginzburg's beautiful words have such solidity and simplicity. I read her with joy and amazement.' -- Tessa Hadley 'Dear Michele,...

'It was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.' Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy,...

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man, living in a grand apartment in the city and wearing silk stockings. To escape her father's...

'I took the revolver out of his desk drawer and shot him between the eyes.'Four years before she shoots her husband and walks to a café for a coffee, a lonely young woman living in a boarding house meets...

'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times 'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' -- Lara Feigel, Guardian 'I did not know,' I said, 'that life could go at a run, with...

'I really love and admire The Little Virtues.' -- Zadie Smith 'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk 'As far as the education of...

From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from...

The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is...

“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...

Winner of the Bagutta Prize, The Manzoni Family set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, captures the story of Alessandro Manzoni—celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the...

Winner of the Bagutta Prize, The Manzoni Family set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, captures the story of Alessandro Manzoni—celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the...

Ippolito tapait à la machine les mémoires que leur père dictait en se réjouissant du bon tour qu’il jouait au roi, à Mussolini et aux «crapules» fascistes. Concettina ne cessait de changer de fiancé,...