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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1962
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 250
A young Jewish man in Fascist Italy falls for the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family and spends afternoons inside their walled garden as racial laws close in, and the family he could never enter is destroyed by the war he survives.
For many years I wanted to write about the Finzi-Continis – about Micòl and Alberto, about Professor Ermanno and Signora Olga
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