''A Love Affair'' () is a 1963 novel by the Italian writer

Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati-Traverso (; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for '' Corriere della Sera''. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel ''The Tartar St ...

. It tells the story of an architect in

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who falls in love with a much younger ballerina. The novel has an unusually conventional narrative style compared to many of the author's other works. An English translation by Joseph Green was published in 1964. The novel was the basis for the 1965 film '' Un amore'', directed by

Gianni Vernuccio Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (in ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Love Affair 1963 novels 20th-century Italian novels Italian novels adapted into films Italian-language books Novels set in Milan Novels by Dino Buzzati Arnoldo Mondadori Editore books NYRB Classics