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Title	:	The Moon and the Bonfire
Author	:	Cesare Pavese
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	2002 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy

The Moon and the Bonfire

Cesare Pavese

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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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 known since 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, Pavese weaves separate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.

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Original Title:	La luna e i falò
ISBN:	0720611199 (ISBN13: 9780720611199)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Santo Stefano Belbo(Italy) Piedmont(Italy)
Literary Awards:	PEN Translation Prize for R.W. Flint (2003)

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Ratings: 3.8 From 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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This book is recommended by "1010 Books" (best of contemporary Italian fiction). If this is the best, it says little for the state of the novel in Italy. In a nutshell the story line is ...you can go home. One positive, it's only 189 pages.

A lovely and atmospheric book. It's not really plotless but I think the plot is somewhat beside the point. It's more about evoking the memories of youth and the bittersweetness of looking back on them after things have changed. The descriptions of the countryside, the farm, the river, the town are so vivid they had me looking on Google maps to see if they were real. They all are and you can even visit the places that inspired them and you could even chat with Nuto until he died in 1990. I

I found Cesare Pavese's "The Moon and the Bonfire" to be too slow moving and consequently not terribly interesting. Every time I picked it up, I completely forgot what the book was about until I started reading again-- which doesn't bode all that well for the memorability of the book a year or two from now.The book is about a poor Italian who immigrated to America, then returns to his roots and reminisces about the events of his childhood. This is an okay work, but not something that really drew

A gently flowing story of a successful man who returns to the village where he was raised after many years abroad. Anguilla had always been an outsider, never really belonging. When he returned to the village he began to understand that nothing stays the same.Quite a bleak and melancholic story as Anguilla learns the fate of the village inhabitants over the intervening years.Well written, descriptive, introspective. From the Boxall 1000 list.

Some years ago I decided that I wanted to go back to the place where I had been raised. Just for the day. Or for an hour or two, at least. I had been away at university, and although that had changed me, had helped me to come to terms with many of my childhood experiences, I was still aware of it my home town creeping around, spider-like, in the corners of my mind. I arrived by bus around midday, and I stood at the bottom of the hill, gazing up at the gloomy council estate in which I had spent

I found Cesare Pavese's "The Moon and the Bonfire" to be too slow moving and consequently not terribly interesting. Every time I picked it up, I completely forgot what the book was about until I started reading again-- which doesn't bode all that well for the memorability of the book a year or two from now.The book is about a poor Italian who immigrated to America, then returns to his roots and reminisces about the events of his childhood. This is an okay work, but not something that really drew