{"product_id":"family-and-borghesia-paperback","title":"Family and Borghesia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatalia Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBeryl Stockman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eErica Gudas\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarmine, an architect, and Ivana, 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 Dod , who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. \u003ci\u003eFamily\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorghesia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalia Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e (1916-1991) was born Natalia Levi in Sicily, the daughter of a Jewish biologist father and a Catholic mother. She grew up in Turin, in a household that was a salon for antifascist activists, intellectuals, and artists, and published her first short stories at the age of eighteen; she would go on to become one of the most important and widely taught writers in Italy, taking up the themes of oppression, family, and social change. In 1938, she married Leone Ginzburg, a prominent writer, activist, and editor. In 1940, the fascist government exiled the Ginzburgs and their children to a remote village. After the fall of Mussolini, Leone fled to Rome, where he was arrested by Nazi authorities and tortured to death. Natalia married Gabriele Baldini, an English professor, in 1950, and spent the next three decades in Rome, London, and Turin, writing dozens of novels, plays, and essay. NYRB Classics is the publisher of her novel \u003ci\u003eFamily Lexicon \u003c\/i\u003eand two novellas, \u003ci\u003eValentino and Sagittarius.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeryl Stockman\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, poet, and professional psychic and Tarot reader. She lives in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Gudas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBest Western and Other Poems. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Flash, Raritan\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768732057888,"sku":"9781681375083","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/55183d82b124539f3b4eebd7e9026935.webp?v=1780336087","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/family-and-borghesia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}