Volume 52, Number 12 · July 14, 2005
On 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'
By Tim Parks
In the autumn of 1943, 183 members of the Jewish community of Ferrara, a small town in the northeast of Italy, were rounded up, imprisoned, and deported to concentration camps in Germany. Only one returned. This atrocity is the grim premise behind almost all of Giorgio Bassani's narrative fiction. He was twenty-seven at the time and had grown up in that community. His father was among those deported.
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