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.
| ISBN: | 9780241370544 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2021 |
| Author: | Cesare Pavese |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Fiction in translation |
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.
The Moon and the Bonfires features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Fiction in translation
The Moon and the Bonfires is available in Paperback
The Moon and the Bonfires was written by Cesare Pavese and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Moon and the Bonfires has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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