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All our yesterdays

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In a small town in northern Italy, two large families live in houses opposite each other. They are bound by invisible threads of love and resentment, shared beliefs and prejudices, petty squabbles and genuine friendship. Anna, the youngest, initially watches the turbulent dramas of her family and neighbors as if from a distance. Apathetic by nature, she fears living her life like an insect—"an insect that has nothing but the leaf on which it sits." Deep down, she dreams of running across rooftops and climbing barricades, bringing about the revolution alongside her older brother and his comrades, who dream of the fall of Mussolini.

"All Our Yesterdays" (1952) is a coming-of-age novel in the shadow of fascism and war, which, according to Italo Calvino, is a companion piece to another famous work by Natalia Ginzburg, "Family Lexicon." As war breaks out, with Italy siding with Hitler, the heroes of both books realize that the world is much larger than the street they've known since childhood; they can no longer simply "hold on to their piece of paper," but it seems to be precisely this that gives them the strength to survive the catastrophes that befall them.
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