Cesare Pavese

• May-1963
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The Beach is set against the background of an Italian resort where a varied group of people are spending the summer. The narrrator probes the relationship of a young, married couple, noting every gesture, phrase, and implication....

• Dec-1964
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These stories were Pavese's first works of fiction. They are a record of his transition from poet to novelist and at least two of them were preliminary drafts for later novels. This book reveals much of the tragedy and experience of Pavese's own life...

• 1971
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• Feb-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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"There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery," wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nu...

• Jan-2002
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Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL

The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Sec...

• Apr-2002
• / Suspense
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Set amongst the hills, vineyards, and villages of Piedmont, this tale centers on three young men as they spend what is seemingly their last free summer talking, drinking, and enjoying life. Fascinated with their wealthy acquaintance, Poli, they so...

• Sep-2004
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Published just months before the author's suicide in 1950, this novel has since become one of Pavese's most sought-after books. In this classic, a successful couturier returns to Turin, the city in which she grew up, at the end of World War II....

• Dec-2006
• / General Fiction
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'The Political Prisoner' describes the life an anti-fascist who has served a prison sentence and is banished to a remote Italian seaside resort where he awaits an official pardon. The second novella, 'The Beautiful Summer' is a tale of corruption and...

• Sep-2017
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• Jun-2018
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'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.....

• Feb-2021
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'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 h...

• May-2021
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'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo CalvinoJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the city,...