The Moon and the Bonfires. The Beautiful Summer

The Moon and the Bonfires. The Beautiful Summer

The book presents two works by the remarkable Italian neorealist writer, poet, and translator Cesare Pavese: «The Moon and the Bonfires» and «The Beautiful Summer».

The novel «The Beautiful Summer» won the main Italian literary prize «Strega». Italy in the 1930s,... a working-class suburb of Turin. Against this backdrop unfolds a vivid and dramatic love story between sixteen-year-old Gini and the artist Guido. Gini strives to break free from the dull reality and lives in anticipation of a beautiful summer.

The hero of the work «The Moon and the Bonfires», an Italian who made a career in America, is drawn to the past because only there, in his homeland, will his life find meaning — with old friends among sun-drenched vineyards, walnut groves, and hills. But upon returning, the hero realizes that everything has changed — both the places and the people, and only the smoke of bonfires, smoldering and never extinguished, sometimes flaring up again, remains the same — from the past...

Author: Cesare Pavese

Printhouse: Karo

Series: Modern Reading

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785992515497

Number of pages: 288

Size: 165x115x12 mm

Cover type: soft

Weight: 190 g

ID: 1443346

The book presents two works by the remarkable Italian neorealist writer, poet, and translator Cesare Pavese: «The Moon and the Bonfires» and «The Beautiful Summer».

The novel «The Beautiful Summer» won the main Italian literary prize «Strega». Italy in the 1930s, a working-class suburb of Turin. Against this backdrop unfolds a vivid and dramatic love story between sixteen-year-old Gini and the artist Guido. Gini strives to break free from the dull reality and lives in anticipation of a beautiful summer.

The hero of the work «The Moon and the Bonfires», an Italian who made a career in America, is drawn to the past because only there, in his homeland, will his life find meaning — with old friends among sun-drenched vineyards, walnut groves, and hills. But upon returning, the hero realizes that everything has changed — both the places and the people, and only the smoke of bonfires, smoldering and never extinguished, sometimes flaring up again, remains the same — from the past...

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