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		<title>The city and the house</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than 20 years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must say goodbye to his cousin Roberta; to his former lover Lucrezia and her husband Piero; and to all his friends who used to gather for weekends at Le Margherite, Lucrezia's splendid house in the country. But even before Giuseppe's departure, friendships have begun to fracture as frustrated yearnings and past infidelities strain the bonds. The sale of Le Margherite marks the end of an era and its old inhabitants and vistors are left to pursue happiness on their own. Their stories unfold through an exchange of letters that reveal with great poignancy the thoughts, passions and desires of the protaganists.]]></description>
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		<title>Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Carmine and Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends. During a bout of pneumonia, Carmine begins to look back over opportunities missed and choices made. Set against postwar social breakdown, the melancholic, quietly dazzling 'Family' elegantly examines the human condition and what brings happiness to a life. Widow Ilaria has three cats in quick succession, each one disappearing or dying. Living with her brother-in-law Pietro and her teenage daughter and husband, Ilaria shoulders all the housekeeping and cooking. At first comic, but becoming progressively dark, 'Borghesia' is a delicate evocation of one life and the relationships that constrain and define it.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Carmine and Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends. During a bout of pneumonia, Carmine begins to look back over opportunities missed and choices made. Set against postwar social breakdown, the melancholic, quietly dazzling 'Family' elegantly examines the human condition and what brings happiness to a life. Widow Ilaria has three cats in quick succession, each one disappearing or dying. Living with her brother-in-law Pietro and her teenage daughter and husband, Ilaria shoulders all the housekeeping and cooking. At first comic, but becoming progressively dark, 'Borghesia' is a delicate evocation of one life and the relationships that constrain and define it.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Sagittarius</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A mother decides to follow her daughter to the city, she settles in the suburbs with her older daughter and son-in-law in tow. She quickly grows restless and is eager to find new friends. Brassy, bossy and perpetually dissatisfied she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, and soon the two women are planning to open an art gallery. But there is more to Scilla than meets the eye. After a series of afternoons spent at bars having coffee granitas with cream, and at Scilla's apartment on Via Tripoli, it quickly becomes apparent that the connections and the cultured life promised by Scilla may never materialise, despite always being just within reach. What proceeds is a story of the dissolution of a family, and the role that class plays in its downfall. Sagittarius is the story of misplaced confidence and ambition gone awry, recounted by a wary daughter.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[A mother decides to follow her daughter to the city, she settles in the suburbs with her older daughter and son-in-law in tow. She quickly grows restless and is eager to find new friends. Brassy, bossy and perpetually dissatisfied she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, and soon the two women are planning to open an art gallery. But there is more to Scilla than meets the eye. After a series of afternoons spent at bars having coffee granitas with cream, and at Scilla's apartment on Via Tripoli, it quickly becomes apparent that the connections and the cultured life promised by Scilla may never materialise, despite always being just within reach. What proceeds is a story of the dissolution of a family, and the role that class plays in its downfall. Sagittarius is the story of misplaced confidence and ambition gone awry, recounted by a wary daughter.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Valentino</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents who have no doubt he will be 'a man of consequence'. His sisters, however, see him for what he really is: a lazy, indifferent and self-absorbed medical student who whiles away time with nights out on the town, resulting in a string of failed and incomplete classes. His parents' dreams are soon undone when, out of the blue, Valentino brings home Maddalena, a wealthy and strikingly ugly wife. What ensues is yet another work of quiet devastation told with Ginzburg's unflinching moral realism and keen psychological insight, as the family is scandalised by Valentino's decision and suspicious of Maddalena's motives.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents who have no doubt he will be 'a man of consequence'. His sisters, however, see him for what he really is: a lazy, indifferent and self-absorbed medical student who whiles away time with nights out on the town, resulting in a string of failed and incomplete classes. His parents' dreams are soon undone when, out of the blue, Valentino brings home Maddalena, a wealthy and strikingly ugly wife. What ensues is yet another work of quiet devastation told with Ginzburg's unflinching moral realism and keen psychological insight, as the family is scandalised by Valentino's decision and suspicious of Maddalena's motives.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>All Our Yesterdays</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Set in northern Italy, this is the story of two families and how the children grow through WW2 and its aftermath. Ginzburg shows how people struggle from adolescence into the adult world.]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to the City</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begins to take the dusty road to the city every day, accompanied by Nini, her sweet and mysterious cousin. When Nini takes a job in a factory and moves in with a city woman, Delia sees another way of being. But when she discovers she's pregnant, she agress to marry the father, seduced by the promise of wealth and comfort. Nothing, not even Nini's desperate declaration of love, can stop her - but her rejection will be his undoing.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begins to take the dusty road to the city every day, accompanied by Nini, her sweet and mysterious cousin. When Nini takes a job in a factory and moves in with a city woman, Delia sees another way of being. But when she discovers she's pregnant, she agress to marry the father, seduced by the promise of wealth and comfort. Nothing, not even Nini's desperate declaration of love, can stop her - but her rejection will be his undoing.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The Dry Heart</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA['The Dry Heart' begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and revenge proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA['The Dry Heart' begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and revenge proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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