Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

Family Lexicon

Natalia Ginzburg with Jenny McPhee (Translator)

304 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics emotional reflective slow-paced
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‘The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.’ 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 celeb...

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Moods

reflective 71%
emotional 52%
funny 49%
informative 29%
inspiring 26%
sad 26%
lighthearted 24%
hopeful 13%
relaxing 10%
dark 8%
challenging 7%
adventurous 3%
tense 3%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 54%
slow 32%
fast 13%

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