The City and the House - Natalia Ginzburg and Hasekura Rokuemon

and Hasekura Rokuemon

as this gentle timeless train carries each one forward towards the person they intend to become

rebuild broken links and find their place in today’s world

Dale Saunders

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English

The City and the House - Natalia Ginzburg and Hasekura RokuemonGiuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must say goodbye to his cousin Roberta; to his former lover Lucrezia and her husband Piero; and to all his friends who used to gather for weekends at Le Margherite, Lucrezias splendid house in the country. But even before Giuseppes departure, friendships have begun to fracture as frustrated yearnings and past