The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 200. Quarter-bound imitation blue leather over grey paper boards, blocked in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. In the publisher's "Library of the Holocaust" series.

First printing of this edition published by arrangement with Harcourt Brace & Company, which originally brought out this translation in 1977. First American edition published by Atheneum in 1965, in a translation by Isabel Quigly. Originally published in Turin on 9th of February 1962 under the title Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giulio Einaudi editore.

Winner of the 1962 Viareggio Prize. A haunting, elegiac novel centring on a wealthy, insular Jewish family in the ducal town of Ferrara in pre-war Fascist Italy, as Mussolini's racial laws are being enacted. Vittorio de Sica's justly celebrated 1970 film adaptation, starring Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger, won the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award in 1972. Additionaly, in 1971 it was awarded the Golden Bear at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.