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The Moon and the Bonfires

Cesare Pavese

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1950
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 200

A man returns rich from America to the poor Italian hills where he grew up a nameless foundling, and slowly learns what the war did to the family he once worked for, including the daughter partisans shot and burned in the fields.

A town means not being alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the soil, there is something of yourself
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