Family lexicon Lessico famigliare. English Ginzburg, Natalia creator author. McPhee, Jenny translator. Boyers, Peggy 1952- writer of afterword. text Domestic fiction. Fiction. Autobiographical fiction. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Autobiographical fiction. nyu 2017 monographic eng ita print 221 pages ; 21 cm. "Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy's great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: "The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing. Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy everything thus invented." A Family Lexicon re-creates with extraordinary objectivity the small world of a family enduring some of the most difficult years of the twentieth century, the period from the rise of Mussolini through World War II (Ginzburg's first husband, who was a member of the resistance, was killed by the Nazis) and its immediate aftermath. Every family has its store of phrases and sayings by which it maintains its sense of what it means to be a family. Such sayings and stories lie at the heart of a great novel about family and history"-- Natalia Ginzburg ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee ; afterword by Peg Boyers. e-it--- Ginzburg, Natalia Fiction Ginzburg, Natalia World War (1939-1945) Authors, Italian Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Italy Fiction FICTION Family Life FICTION Historical FICTION Political Authors, Italian Italy 1939-1945 fast PQ4817.I5 L413 2017 853/.912 FIC045000 FIC014000 FIC037000 New York Review Books classics 9781590178386 1590178386 2016026803 DLC 160708 20170926115338.0 in00003861360 eng