The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.

Acesta este un roman emotionant, elegiac, care surprinde starea de spirit si atmosfera Italiei (si in special a Ferrarei) din ultimele veri ale anilor treizeci, concentrandu-se pe o familie aristocratica evreiasca care se indreapta imperceptibil spre sfarsitul sau. Vittorio De Sica a transformat cartea intr-un film in 1970, castigand Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film strain in 1974.