"To Be Read "Book Club at The Company of Books

About this event

Book: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani (recommended translation is by Jamie Kendrick)

We generally meet on the 2nd Saturday of each month, and alternate between reading general literature and sci-fi classics.

Parking spots #6-7, & #41-42, & 44 in the parking lot are for bookstore customers

Link for free registration (not required): TBA

Link to order book from BookShop: https://bookshop.org/lists/upcoming-book-club-picks-the-company-of-books

(If you order your book through BookShop, we’ll extend you 10% of the purchase back in store credit. But feel free to get your copy wherever works best for you!)

BOOK DESCRIPTION: The Finzi-Continis are an aristocratic Jewish family who live an insular life behind the walls of their estate in the northern Italian city of Ferrera. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew, has been intrigued by the Finzi-Continis from boyhood and especially by the two children, Alberto and Micol. Not until he is twenty-two, in the autumn of 1938, is he invited to enter their private world, a place seemingly immune from the racial laws of Fascist Italy. Thirteen years after the war, he traces his intricate relationship with the beautiful Micol and shares the predicament of all the Ferrarese Jews on the eve of their destruction. Critically acclaimed and award-winning, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is an unforgettable, wrenching novel that re-creates a tragic era in history.