The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the
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Fontamara portrays the bitter trials of the villagers of Pescina as they battle with landowners who have appropriated their only source of water. First published from his exile in 1933, and banned in his own country, the novel was translated into 20 languages and won Silone instant international literary fame. Silone's masterpiece, Bread and Wine, introduces the semi-autobiographical character Pietro Spina, an anti-Fascist revolutionary who returns to his homeland after 15 years in exile. He seeks refuge among the Abruzzo peasants by posing as a priest. Pietro's story continues in The Seed Beneath the Snow where he flees again and, with the police in close pursuit, is taken in by his grandmother. Though comfortably settled in Italian bourgeois society, she jeopardises her own life in order to protect him.
Author: Ignazio Silone
Format: Paperback, 927 pages, 142mm x 216mm, 997 g
Published: 2003, Steerforth Press, United States
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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Fontamara portrays the bitter trials of the villagers of Pescina as they battle with landowners who have appropriated their only source of water. First published from his exile in 1933, and banned in his own country, the novel was translated into 20 languages and won Silone instant international literary fame. Silone's masterpiece, Bread and Wine, introduces the semi-autobiographical character Pietro Spina, an anti-Fascist revolutionary who returns to his homeland after 15 years in exile. He seeks refuge among the Abruzzo peasants by posing as a priest. Pietro's story continues in The Seed Beneath the Snow where he flees again and, with the police in close pursuit, is taken in by his grandmother. Though comfortably settled in Italian bourgeois society, she jeopardises her own life in order to protect him.
The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the
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