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The Moon and the Bonfires
  • ISBN: 9780241370544
  • Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Binding: Paperback

The Moon and the Bonfires

Cesare Pavese
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Twenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate.

Wandering the valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel remembers the farm where he worked, his employer’s beautiful daughters, the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there during the war, he realizes that these timeless landscapes hide terrible, savage secrets.

By turns fond and evocative, seductive and troubling, The Moon and the Bonfires is a lyrical masterpiece of memory and betrayal.



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