jerrylwei 's review for:

All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg

4.0

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The first half of Ginzburg's novel starts out in a slow, direct third-person narration of the lead up to WWII in Northern Italy and two families who become interlinked. The second half of the book makes the first half worth it. The prose expands and becomes evocative as the setting moves to the Mezzogiorno. Ginzburg contrasts the poverty of the South with its natural beauty.