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The Moon and the Bonfire - Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent fates of the villagers he has knownsince childhood, seeing the poverty, ignorance, or indifference that binds them to the hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion,Paveseweavesseparate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.


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⚡️Book Title : The Moon and the Bonfire
⚡Book Author : Cesare Pavese
⚡Page : 192 pages
⚡Published 2002 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1950)

The Moon and the Bonfire

Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent fates of the villagers he has knownsince childhood, seeing the poverty, ignorance, or indifference that binds them to the hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion,Paveseweavesseparate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.