Shop No.20, Aurobindo Palace Market, Hauz Khas, Near Church +91 9818282497 | 011 26867121 110016 New Delhi IN
Midland The Book Shop ™
Shop No.20, Aurobindo Palace Market, Hauz Khas, Near Church +91 9818282497 | 011 26867121 New Delhi, IN
+919871604786 https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/6468e33c3c35585403eee048/without-tag-line-480x480.png" [email protected]
9780141192154 608e8cdcf957238b22a33b3a The Gold-rimmed Spectacles https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60ae53f8c0aa435057b5a9aa/7694308-l.jpg A new Translation by Jamie McKendrick 'Singular . . . The town of Ferrara and its inhabitants are realized with an extraordinary clarity' Guardian Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation. As anti-Semitism spreads across Italy, the Jewish narrator of the tale begins to feel pity for the ostracized doctor, as the fickle nature of a community changing under political forces becomes clear.The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles is Bassani's most perfect novel, and a gripping and tragic study of the terrifying historical realities that can shatter the courses of isolated, individual lives. 9780141192154
in stockINR 399
1 1
The Gold-rimmed Spectacles

The Gold-rimmed Spectacles

ISBN: 9780141192154
₹399
₹499   (20% OFF)



Details
  • ISBN:9780141192154
  • Author: Giorgio Bassani
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Pages: 135
  • Format: Paperback
SHARE PRODUCT

Book Description

A new Translation by Jamie McKendrick 'Singular . . . The town of Ferrara and its inhabitants are realized with an extraordinary clarity' Guardian Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation. As anti-Semitism spreads across Italy, the Jewish narrator of the tale begins to feel pity for the ostracized doctor, as the fickle nature of a community changing under political forces becomes clear.The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles is Bassani's most perfect novel, and a gripping and tragic study of the terrifying historical realities that can shatter the courses of isolated, individual lives.

User reviews

  0/5