All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays Book Description: Italy in the late 1930s. While the fascists are making the country pale, on the other hand, the shadow of the dark cloud covering Europe is also falling on Italy. Before the approaching World War II, anxiety, despair and discouragement had already taken over everywhere. On the one hand, Anna's family; The quarrelsome old father who gave the necessary answer to the fascists by writing that never-ending book of memoirs, the older brother Ippolito who affects everyone's fate with his life line, his sister Convettina, the younger brother Giustino, Miss Maria who does every job in the house and their friend Cenzo Rena who shows up at the most necessary times. On the other hand, their rich neighbors; A father who owns a soap factory, an ambitious mother, their daughter Amalia, their two sons Emanuele and Giuma, and the family's close friend Franz of Jewish origin! In her novel based around Anna and her bourgeois family, Natalia Ginzburg perfectly conveys the story of a generation and the entire story of a family that is shattered. All Our Yesterdays are the story of a family; It is a perfect novel about how destructive a phenomenon war is, even if it is far away, and how strong the hope of living is. (From the Promotional Bulletin)