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The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
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