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#alphabetgame
#letterG

I've already seen my dear friend Gatsby mentioned, so i picked my second best book with the letter G..

Honorable mention:
The Giver by Lois Lowry

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I wanted to read this novel for ages but never did it. I bought a copy in Ferrara few weeks aho, as a souvenir, and finally read it. In a day. A real masterpiece!

A book that #BeginsWith #garden
(or #giardino 🇮🇹)
One of my favorites of all times 💕
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

This is a dark, atmospheric novel, full of foreboding, which is only heightened by being informed from the outset that every character but the narrator will die shortly after the conclusion of the story at the hands of the Nazis. Not every part of the book worked for me - I didn't find the love story between the narrator and Micol all that engaging - but the melancholic air Bassani creates is pitch-perfect.

I loved this book, the slowly gathering gloom around the edges of cultured jewish life in a beautiful garden in northern Italy as fascism gathers around them. We learn in the first few pages how many of these beautiful young people died in auschwitz, and then spend two hundred pages with them playing tennis and discussion books as the war gathers pace. #wintergames2020 #merryreaders @Clwojick +16

(The #Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
The garden is a safe heaven for the protagonists.. the time stops and they can keep the world and its changes outside.
#LetsTravelJuly @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

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Anni '30, Ferrara. Il narratore, un giovane studente ebreo, ci porta a vivere nella sua quotidianità borghese i primi effetti delle leggi razziali. Il giardino della tenuta dei Finzi-Contini diventa un rifugio dal mondo esterno, dove il tempo sembra fermarsi.. Ma il momento di affrontare la realtà arriva sempre!
Lo stile di Bassani, con la sua prosa colta e raffinata, mi ha conquistato già nei primissimi capitoli ❤
#Litsyinitaliano

next up.. 📖

My #currentread is The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Georgio Bassani, and my current #knitting project is a pretty scarf. 😊
#amreading #bookish #bookstagram #instabook #instaknitting #knitstagram #knitaddict

The novel begins with the end. The narrator, encountering the Finzi-continis mausoleum, First tells us their fate and then recounts his relationship with the family many years earlier in 1930s and 1940s Italy.

This was not the novel I expected - the politics of the time were not made explicit and the story ends before the real horrors begin. It's a sepia portrait of a time and place with a creeping shadow just visible at the edge of the frame.

Described as a modern classic about the lives of Italian Jews in 1938 Ferrara. Maybe it was because of the translation, but the writing seemed choppy and difficult to follow. I can see others getting more out of this book, but it wasn't quite for me.

The garden of the family Finzi-Contini, where young jewish adults play tennis while Hitler's star is rising, forms the background of the lovestory between two young adults. His love is not returned, in this book he remembers those days with melancholy. Those days on the eve of WWII, that would kill his beloved Micol. #1001books