Family Lexicon'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in jokes and insults, and above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family. The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist,