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The Moon and the Bonfire (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
The Moon and the Bonfire - Peter Owen Modern Classic Author:Cesare Pavese The nameless narrator of this, 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... more » 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.« less