false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172010781m/132376.jpg 132376 17 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; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war—a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death—he finds that the past still haunts the present. The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Here it appears in a vigorous new English version by R. W. Flint, whose earlier translations of Pavese's fiction were acclaimed by Leslie Fiedler as "absolutely lucid and completely incantatory." 1521454 1950 The Moon and the Bonfire (Peter Owen Modern Classic) total:107|5:34|4:37|3:27|2:7|1:2| 107 415 247 13 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 08:52:27 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 08:57:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 05:46:04 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 05:49:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 25 08:03:02 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 08:04:19 -0800 2009 I had so looked foreward to it, and yet... could not engage with either characters or storyline.
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"These are the best days of the year. Picking grapes, stripping vines, squeezing the fruit, are no kind of work; the heat has gone and it's not cold yet; under a few light clouds you eat rabbit with you polenta and go after mushrooms."]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jun 30 02:54:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 02:56:06 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jun 25 07:51:50 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 07:53:26 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 24 15:31:05 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 11:55:18 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 18:48:07 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:48:07 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 01 19:29:03 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:29:18 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 22 19:15:52 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 19:16:13 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 10:50:58 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 10:50:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 10:12:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 10:12:25 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 00:41:07 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 00:41:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 04:53:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 04:53:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 05:19:49 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 05:19:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 22:55:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 22:55:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 12:45:25 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:45:25 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=132376