{"product_id":"within-the-walls","title":"Within the Walls","description":"A 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\u003e A 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\u003e In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the \u003ci\u003eRomanzo di Ferrara,\u003c\/i\u003e his 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","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Within the Walls","offer_id":46548956807365,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-14-119216-1.jpg?v=1784257942","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/within-the-walls","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}