The Moon and the Bonfires

The Moon and the Bonfires
Tim Parks, Cesare Pavese
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h198 x 129mm - 176pg
28 Jan 2021 UK
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9780241370544
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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.
Pavese is one of the few essential novelists of the mid-twentieth century -- Susan Sontag Pavese' s nine short novels make up the most dense, dramatic, and homogeneous narrative cycle of modern Italy . . . But above all they are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings -- Italo Calvino Cesare Pavese' s cool, contemplative voice was the most important among postwar Italian writers -- W. S. DiPiero Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive * The New York Times Book Review * The Moon and the Bonfires [is Pavese' s] masterpiece on the aftermath of the partisan war in the hills around Turin * The Daily Telegraph *
Cesare Pavese (Author) Cesare Pavese was born in 1908 in Santo Stefano Belbo, a village in the hills of Piedmont. He worked as a translator (of Melville, Joyce and Faulkner) and as an editor for the publishing house Einaudi Editore, while also publishing his own poetry and a string of successful novels, including The House on the Hill and The Moon and the Bonfires. Never actively anti-Fascist himself, he was nevertheless sent into internal exile in Calabria in 1935 for having aided other subversives. He killed himself in 1950, shortly after receiving Italy' s most prestigious literary prize, the Strega. Tim Parks (Translator) Tim Parks moved to Italy in 1981 and lives in Milan. Well known for his non-fiction writings on Italy - Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education - and his novels - Europa (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Destiny, In Extremis - he has translated a number of Italian writers, in particular Macchiavelli, Leopardi, Moravia, Calvino, Tabucchi and Calasso. He has twice been awarded the John Florio Prize for Translation from the Italian.
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ISBN-13: 9780241370544
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 176

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