Family Lexicon

'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker 'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times 'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her Italian family, she summoned them in this celebration of the routines and rituals, in...