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Family Sayings

Natalia Ginzburg

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1963
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 220

An Italian writer remembers her boisterous Jewish family in Turin through the private jokes and stock phrases they never stop repeating, following them from ordinary squabbles into Fascism, arrest and war.

The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.
Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg

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