{"product_id":"the-smell-of-hay","title":"Smell of Hay","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including \u003ci\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis, \u003c\/i\u003eand featuring people and places from these novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Smell of Hay \u003c\/i\u003eis told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Powerful new translations... Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet, novelist and editor. \u003ci\u003eThe Smell of Hay \u003c\/i\u003eis the last in a series of six works collected together as \u003ci\u003eIl romanzo di Ferrara. \u003c\/i\u003eOther works in the cycle include \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, \u003ci\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWithin the Walls \u003c\/i\u003e(originally published as \u003ci\u003eFive Stories of Ferrara\u003c\/i\u003e), which won the Strega Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani's \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles \u003c\/i\u003eare already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the process of translating the rest of the \u003ci\u003eRomanzo di Ferrara \u003c\/i\u003ecycle anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32122755776595,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141192123.jpg?v=1777103121","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-smell-of-hay","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}