Natalia Ginzburg

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Dear Michael

    In this acclaimed novel, Natalia Ginzburg uses fragments of everyday experience, recorded in a series of letters, to create a profoundly moving picture of the lives of a small group of people in modern Italy....

  • No Way

  • Little Virtues

    Eleven essays typify the author's brusque, practical style and draw on her female experiences as they reflect on life after the war and assert that family warmth will provide the courage needed to face the closing century...

  • Valentino and Sagittarius

    Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century's best Italian novelists.Valentino and Sagittarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg’s most celebrated works: tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of ...

  • All Our Yesterdays

    From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before...

  • The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg

    Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short sto...

  • Voices In The Evening

    From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, E...

  • The Road To The City: Two Novellas

    The protagonists of these two astute, finely burnished novellas by the eminent Italian author are young women who learn to accept the cultural lesson that deems it their duty to secure a man. Courtship and marriage become battlefields where they are ...

  • The City and the House

    The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of THE CITY AND THE HOUSE is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among ...



  • The Manzoni Family

    Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, THE MANZONI FAMILY tells a rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war. It pivots on the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the m...

  • Family Sayings

    Hailed upon publication as a groundbreaking memoir, giving the form “a new dimension, new possibilities, and ... an aspect that is entirely new” (Times Literary Supplement), FAMILY SAYINGS is Natalia Ginzburg’s masterpiece and a classic of cont...

  • A Family Lexicon

    A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fictionAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg’...

  • The Dry Heart

    Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale -- a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, de...

  • Happiness, as Such

    The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review) Longlisted for the PEN Translation AwardAt the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence -- an abyss that pulls everyone to...

  • Family and Borghesia

    Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and t...

  • A Light for Fools

  • Sagittarius

  • Valentino

  • The Road to the City

    A magnificently stark book -- within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, wh...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Natalia Ginzburg has published 19 books.

Natalia Ginzburg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Road to the City, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Natalia Ginzburg, No Way, was published in January 1974.

No. Natalia Ginzburg does not write books in series.
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