Behind the door / Giorgio Bassani ; translated by William Weaver.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 66Publication details: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, c1972.Description: 150 p. ; 19 cmISBN:- 0156116855
- 9780156116855
- Dietro la porta. English
- 853/.914
- PQ4807.A79 D5413 1976
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Stonewall Fiction | FIC BAS 1972 | 1 | Available | 01561168551 |
Translation of Dietro la porta.
"A Harvest/HBJ book"
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
A sheltered sixteen-year-old Jewish boy in Ferrara reflects on a critical period of his schooldays in 1929-1930. He makes friends with the leader of the class, a boy with the right looks and the right religion, and with a new boy who joins the class--another "outsider". While the young Jew is shy and naive, the newcomer is aggressive, cynical, sexually unihibited. Bassani subtly explores the relations of the three boys, as events lead to a shattering betrayal of trust.
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