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A magnificently stark bookwithin the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving tooshe is a mass of confusion. Shes in a bleak space, lit with the hard clarity of a Pasolini film. Her family is no help: her father is largely absent; her mother is miserable; her sisters unhappily promiscuous; her brothers are in a separate masculine world. Only her cousin Nini seems to see her. She falls into disgrace and then marries up, but without any joy, blind to what was beautiful right before her own eyes. The Road to the City was Ginzburgs very first work, originally published under a pseudonym. I think it might be her best book, her translator Gini Alhadeff remarked: And apparently she thought so, too, at the end of her life, when assembling a complete anthology of her work for Mondadori.
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