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Vinci-contini Gardens
General Fiction芬奇-孔蒂尼花园
(italian) Giorgio Bassani
"The Garden of Vinci-Contini" is a novel about youth, love, and recollection of the lost time. The author uses Proustian style to narrate the last carefree and lush years of the Jewish youth of Ferrara in the isolated garden of the Vinci-Contini family before the advent of World War II. Love is the most important thing to a young man who knows no sorrow, but his life is about to perish in what should be the best years...
"The Garden of Vinci-Contini" is a novel about youth, love, and recollection of the lost time. The author uses Proustian style to narrate the last carefree and lush years of the Jewish youth of Ferrara in the isolated garden of the Vinci-Contini family before the advent of World War II. Love is the most important thing to a young man who knows no sorrow, but his life is about to perish in what should be the best years...