Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

The Abruzzo Cycle #1

Fontamara

Ignazio Silone with Eric Mosbacher (Translator), Darina Silone (Translator)

190 pages paperback 1933

17 editions

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Fontamara, the first novel in Ignazio Silone’s celebrated Abruzzo Trilogy, portrays the impoverished, embattled peasants (cafoni) in Abruzzo and their spirited yet doomed opposition to the ruthless expansion of fascism. Springing from the very soi...

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