Voices in the evening
A novel set in postwar Italy: with fascism gone, former fascists have been reintegrated, alongside socialists and communists, and the Christian Democracy party is born. The war has left deep wounds,...
GINZBURG, Natalia
The Road to the City
Natalia Levi, known as Ginzburg by her husband’s surname, is one of the most famous Italian writers of the 20th century. Her literature has a strong social content. Not in vain did she suffer exile...
The Dry Heart
The short novel by Natalia Ginzburg was published in 1947 and the prologue was written by Italo Calvino. It begins with the confession of a woman who confesses that she has murdered her husband....
The Little Virtues
A book that can be placed between the genres of essay and autobiography. Through personal experiences (the suffering of war and hunger, the memory of her dead husband, her experience as a wife and mother)...
The Road to the City
The title refers to the path leading to a better life; a path that, for the protagonist, is represented by a marriage of convenience. This novel, Ginzburg's first, already contains the seeds of the strength...
All our yesterdays
Anna, a shy and withdrawn girl, grows up in a town in northern Italy before World War II. Her life changes when she marries Cenzo Rena, a man thirty years older than her, and follows him to a remote place...
Family Lexicon
Family Lexicon tells the story of the Levi family, a Jewish and antifascist family who lived in Turin between 1930 and 1950. Natalia, the daughter of Professor Levi, was a close witness to her family's...