The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese

Insinuating haunting and lyrically pervasive The New York Times Book Review A new translation by Tim Parks Twenty years after making his fortune in America Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Wandering the valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto Eel remembers the farm where he worked his employers beautiful daughters the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there du Paperback softback