Moon and the Bonfires

Name: Moon and the Bonfires
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ISBN: 9781590170212

ISBN-10: 1590170210

ISBN-13: 9781590170212

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cesare. Pavese, Mark Rudman, R. W. Flint

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Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL 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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 10/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

MARK RUDMAN received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Rider (1994). He teaches poetry at New York University.