Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking - when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives.
| ISBN: | 9781911547259 |
| Publication date: | 20th September 2018 |
| Author: | Natalia Ginzburg |
| Publisher: | European Schoolbooks an imprint of Daunt Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |
Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking - when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives.
Family Lexicon features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary
Family Lexicon is available in Paperback, Ebook
Family Lexicon was written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by European Schoolbooks an imprint of Daunt Books
Family Lexicon has 224 pages
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