The Moon and the Bonfires

Tutti i libri in vendita nello shop della Fondazione Cesare Pavese sono disponibili nell'edizione timbrata "Fondazione Cesare Pavese" non acquistabile altrove. Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent, and to his employer's beautiful daughters. The landscape and its people seem locked in timeless rituals; but as Eel discovers the secret stories of the partisans who hid out in the hills during the war, he comes to recognize that the truth is both more complicated and more disturbing. ______ Autore: Cesare Pavese Edizione: Penguin Classics 2021 pp. 176