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Hace apenas una semana de la boda de Pietro y Giuliana, y poco más de un mes desde que se conocieron. Él es un abogado de clase acomodada, fatigado de una vida sosegada en la que reina el orden; ella, una excéntrica muchacha de origen más humilde que, tras huir de casa a los diecisiete años, ha debido valerse por sí misma. Pietro ha invitado a su familia a una comida en su apartamento para intentar tranquilizar a la madre, que no ve el repentino...
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In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist...
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"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but...
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