CONTENTS

Foreword by André Aciman

Introduction by Jamie McKendrick

I.  WITHIN THE WALLS

Lida Mantovani

The Stroll before Dinner

A Memorial Tablet in Via Mazzini

The Final Years of Clelia Trotti

A Night in ’43

II.  THE GOLD-RIMMED SPECTACLES

III.  THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS

IV.   BEHIND THE DOOR

V.   THE HERON

VI.  THE SMELL OF HAY

Two Fables

Further News of Bruno Lattes

Ravenna

Les Neiges d’Antan

Three Apologues

Down There, at the End of the Corridor

About the Author