by Natalia Ginzburg · Debate Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483065488
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«La ciudad y la casa» is the novel by Natalia Ginzburg published by Debate Editorial in 2003 in hardcover (248 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Italy between 1939 and 1944, from the months of unease before the outbreak of war to the Allied victory, with its trail of anxiety, disappointment and mourning. Through letters, Ginzburg reconstructs the lives of characters facing separation, uprootedness and the desire to belong.
Originally published in 1984 as «La città e la casa»; it falls within Italian literary and historical fiction.
A work for readers of literary and historical fiction interested in wartime Italy and in personal relationships narrated through letters.
Natalia Levi Ginzburg was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and the United States.
