This is a 1956 novel by the Italian writer Giorgio Bassani. It’s part of a six novel series called “The Novel of Ferrara” and contains the much more famous novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which became a well-known film. I will review that novel later on. This novel splits its time among several different tangentially connected stories. The effect is of walking through the small city, being told about various landmarks–some official and some unofficial–and then given the stories behind them. In some cases, these […]