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Con su intuición de las constelaciones familiares y de las pasiones calladas, Natalia Ginzburg narra la vida breve de Antón Chéjov (1860-1904), desde su juventud en Taganrog y sus primeros años en Moscú, los inicios como escritor humorístico y su trabajo como médico rural, hasta su viaje al campo de Sajalín, sus primeros éxitos como autor teatral, la enfermedad, los últimos años en Yalta y la muerte prematura en Badenweiler. En este hermoso...
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Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, The Manzoni Family tells a rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war. It pivots on the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the masterpiece of nineteenth-century Italian literature, I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). But the tale begins with the matriarchal figure of Giulia, the mother whom the young poet found in Paris after she...
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This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg's novels, terrible things happen-suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings....
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