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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani''s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.

Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man''s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life''s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.

This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in

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The Smell of Hay

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    A Paperback / softback by Giorgio Bassani, Jamie McKendrick

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/08/2014
      ISBN13: 9780141192123, 978-0141192123
      ISBN10: 0141192127
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A new translation of Giorgio Bassani''s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.

      Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man''s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life''s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.

      This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in

      Trade Review
      Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists * Guardian *

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