{"product_id":"the-garden-of-the-finzicontinis-9781400044221","title":"The Garden of the FinziContinis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love  and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic  of modern Italian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade into an Academy Award—winning film in 1970, \u003ci\u003eThe  Garden of the Finzi—Continis \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar  Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has  long been fascinated from afar by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic  Jewish family, and especially by their daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that  he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather  there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis  becomes an idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years after the war,  the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol,  and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching  portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529263915351,"sku":"9781400044221","price":18.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781400044221.jpg?v=1731874938","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-garden-of-the-finzicontinis-9781400044221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}