The moon and the bonfires

Pavese, Cesare.

Original title: Luna e i falò

first published 1953 P. Owen, 1974 189 pages

New York Review Books classics

"The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhap...

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The moon and the bonfires edition · 2002 · New York Review Books · 154 pages
Moon and the Bonfire paperback · 1988 · Sceptre Books · 189 pages · 9780340424339
The moon and the bonfire edition · 1974 · P. Owen · 189 pages
The moon and the bonfires edition · 1953 · Greenwood Press · 206 pages

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