Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Ginzburg, Natalia, author.

Title Voices in the evening / Natalia Ginzburg ; translated from the Italian by D. M. Low ; with an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Publication Info. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021.
©1963

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F GINZBERG, N.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F GINZBURG NATALIA    Check Shelf
Description 125 pages ; 21 cm
Note "A New Directions Paperbook"--Title page.
"Originally published in Italian as Le voce della sera. First published in English by the Hogarth Press, London 1963"--Title page verso.
Summary "In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course of their secret meetings, Elsa begins to imagine a future with Tommasino, free from the constraints of expectations and burdensome history. But this is all threatened by exposure. An elegant and beautifully re-strained novel that scratches at the fragility of postwar consciousness, Voices in the Evening is an unforgettable story about first love and lost chances"-- Provided by publisher.
Language In English. Translated from the Italian.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Country life -- Fiction.
Italy -- History -- 1945-1976.
Added Author Low, D. M. (David Morrice), 1890-1972, translator.
Tóibín, Colm, 1955- writer of introduction.
Added Title Voci della sera. English
ISBN 9780811231008 (paperback)
0811231003 (paperback)
-->
Add a Review