{"product_id":"the-smell-of-hay-by-giorgio-bassani-9780141192123","title":"The Smell of Hay","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new translation of this haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these haunting stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery—these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the sequence including \u003cem\u003eThe Gold-Rimmed Spectacles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring people and places from these novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Smell of Hay\u003c\/em\u003e is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46718297506028,"sku":"9780141192123","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6723213482238.jpg?v=1754504330","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-smell-of-hay-by-giorgio-bassani-9780141192123","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}