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The novel is a dark tale of destructive ambition, class discrimination, domestic violence and Victorian repression, inspired by Dickens' style but with Cronin's social realism. A 1942 film adaptation starring Robert Newton.
Kenize Murad, granddaughter of the Turkish Sultan Murad, was born in Paris and writes in French. She achieved world fame in the late 1980s with this novel.
This is one of her significant works, reflecting her engagement with social issues and the development of her literary style, which gradually moved away from schematic social prose towards a more modern narrative structure.
Giorgio Bassani's Italian historical novel, published in 1962, chronicles the relationship between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini to the beginning of World War II.