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After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel's narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness.…
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The crowning glory of Voices in the Evening lies in how deftly Natalia Ginzburg employs the first-person voice as a vessel for collective experience, rather than individual confession. When she recounts the intimate details of others' lives, Elsa—Ginzburg's seemingly all-knowing narrator—initially comes across as a prurient busybody. Yet, as the story drifts towards her own misfortunes, discerning readers might feel a flicker of sympathy for her, since she is little more than a cipher—an absence within the story of her own heartbreak.
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