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Family Lexicon

Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel `Family Lexicon` while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia – yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini`s Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home – but a stronghold against fascism.Intimate, enchanting and comedic, `Family Lexicon` is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.”It is perhaps best to say straight off that the book is a masterpiece.” New Yorker

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