Nick Grammos’s Reviews > The Garden of the Finzi Continis > Status Update

The tennis courts part of the garden. Bassani has attempted to recall, or recreate a world once it has vanished as though memory is an imperative. It requires details for those who have no personal record and prompts for those who forget. Details, the name of the woman with the recipes, the anchovy butter on bread served at lunch alongside chicken béchamel vol au vents, I mean anything likened to air risks forgetting

I loved the first two chapters, or prologue and chapter one especially for the sweeping historical approach.
Not read mr Bassani before, so here we go. Though I always feel out of step with those GR friends who had read it around the same time.
I think a little of the Leopard. Which makes sense since Bassani had a hand in Leopard's publication a few years earlier. The influence is obvious to me.