{"product_id":"9780141192123-retail-the-smell-of-hay","title":"The Smell of Hay","description":"A new translation of this haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith\n\nIsolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these haunting stories  set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's  unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely  funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery -  these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity  and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.\n\nThis new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his  earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48918180856027,"sku":"9780141192123-RETAIL","price":25.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fa65cdaa-bcb4-4d8b-8e64-97c3d43e3998.jpg?v=1782763093","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141192123-retail-the-smell-of-hay","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}