Family Lexicon
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Family Lexicon
14.99 €
Meet the flighty Levi family, their quirks and daily rituals, remembered by their favorite words, dialectal expressions, and only they alone can understand - the kind that are always born in a circle of close people. Giuseppe Levi is an energetic scientist, physician, avid sportsman and irreconcilable disputant. His wife Lydia, a measured and good-natured lover of art, ice showers and carpandu apples. Their five very different children, growing up in a house where the voices of guests - intellectuals, politicians, artists - are never silenced. They all live in Turin in the first half of the twentieth century, Mussolini is in power, and those who disagree with his policies are persecuted and arrested. Freedom-loving Levi - Jews and convinced anti-fascists - even in the darkest times do not lose their humor and easy attitude to life, they fight for their beliefs and their loved ones, seek and find salvation in each other.
"Family Lexicon" (1963) - a groundbreaking autobiographical novel by Natalia Ginzburg about the power of language and the nature of memories; the story of her family, told truthfully - as far as possible, because "memory - a thing flexible and books taken from life, are often only faint reflections, shards of what we have seen or heard".
"Family Lexicon" (1963) - a groundbreaking autobiographical novel by Natalia Ginzburg about the power of language and the nature of memories; the story of her family, told truthfully - as far as possible, because "memory - a thing flexible and books taken from life, are often only faint reflections, shards of what we have seen or heard".
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