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The garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani

Book recommended for June by the Reading Group of the 'Call'

June	Call de Girona

Title: The garden of the Finzi-Continis
Author: Giorgio Bassani

Ferrara's Jewish community is shaken, in the late thirties, by the racial laws of fascist government. Later, the narrator evokes the slow transition from childhood to maturity through the process leading bourgeois well-being to harsh persecution. A growth process that would be marked by the blinding presence, on the border between friendship and love, of a girl, Micòl Finzi-Contini, the most suggestive character by Giorgio Bassani. A novel that beats gently, deeply, the reader.