Voices in the Evening

By Natalia Ginzburg

Book Overview

La novela m s hermosa de Natalia Ginzburg, seg n Italo Calvino, elogiada por Lydia Davis, Colm T ib n, Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson o Zaddie Smith: una historia inolvidable sobre la felicidad, el amor y... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559700165
• ISBN13: 9781559700160
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A clear voice, feminine and universal

A short novel describing the decadence of an agrarian italian dynasty from the point of view of a girl engaged in a lame love affair with one of the last decendants thereof. Like her other short novels ("The way to the city" and "This is how it happened" - I don't really know under what titles they were published in the US), the hero is a young woman who struggles for independece but pays a high price. I won't delude you, her writing is bleak and melancholic. Don't expect happy endings or too much optimism, you'll have to settle for a pure voice telling you in a unique style sad but wise and sensitive stories.