The Moon and the Bonfires (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241370544
- ISBN10 024137054X
- Type Book
- Collection GARDNERS #
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureThe Moon and the Bonfires (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
Book Details
'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty 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 employer's beautiful daughters, the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there during the war, he realizes that these timeless landscapes hide terrible, savage secrets.
By turns fond and evocative, seductive and troubling, The Moon and the Bonfires is a lyrical masterpiece of memory and betrayal. Translated with an Introduction by Tim Parks