Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and more: Italian fiction and non-fiction from the mid-late C2oth to the present. Ground-breaking and compulsive, the first novel in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet stands on its own. Ginzburg is having a deserved new wave of fame thanks to a clutch of recent new editions, and Bassani remains a strong yet understated voice, writing about a Jewish family living in northern Italy in the years leading up to WW2. Sciascia’s short stories, all set in his native Sicily, are characteristically clear and penetrating. The length and breadth of Italy are traveled by Attlee in pursuit of citrus of every type, from the misshapen beauties prized by the Medicis to the remains of Arab irrigation systems around Palermo so vital for these precious fruit, from the northernmost outposts of lemon cultivation to bergamot and citron orchards in Calabria. Fascinating and joyous stuff.

This bundle includes:

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
Happiness, as Such, Natalia Ginzburg
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit, Helena Attlee
Lampedusa: A Novel, Steven Price
The Wine-Dark Sea, Leonardo Sciascia

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