Heron

A new translation of Bassani's haunting last novel: a portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning with life and loneliness. In the fifth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara, Bassani follows a day in the slipping life of Edgardo Limentani. As the day wears on, his malaise grows, seeping from his thoughts and feelings into the natural world around him, until it reaches an intolerable pitch.