- Blurb -
Carmine, an architect, and Ida, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodo, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ida, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up. Borghesia, about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. "She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse," thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg' s characters, beginning to age out of youth- "Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back. "
- Author Bio -
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was an activist and the author of several novels, short stories, essays, and plays, many of which have been translated into English. NYRB Classics published a new translation of her novel Family Lexicon in 2017 and will be publishing a collection of two novellas, Valentino and Saggitarius, in fall 2020. Beryl Stockman is a translator, poet, and professional psychic and Tarot reader. She lives in London.
- Full Details -
Status: | Indent title, imported to order |
ISBN-13: | 9781681375083 |
Published: | 2 Mar 2021 |
Published In: | United States |
Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
Publisher: | The New York Review of Books Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Pages: | 120 |
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