Keep the ball rolling
Tim Parks: Natalia Ginzburg, 29 June 2017
A Family Lexicon
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Jenny McPhee.
NYRB, 224 pp., £9.99, August 2017,978 1 59017 838 6 Show More
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Jenny McPhee.
NYRB, 224 pp., £9.99, August 2017,
“... e potacci (‘messes’) – originating in Triestine dialect and unknown to most Italians. Though Jenny McPhee’s new version of the book is always sprightly and readable, the English version inevitably loses the fun of these and many other odd words and expressions that turn up in the ‘family lexicon’. Ginzburg goes on to tell hilarious anecdotes ... ”