Author: Cesare Pavese
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719043833
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The novel is set in the small town of Santo Stefano Belbo, in Piedmont, north-west Italy. The protagonist, known only by his nickname of Anguilla (Eel), has returned to his home town in the years immediately following the Second World War. He left twenty-five years earlier and had made his fortune in the United States. Returning to his home town, he finds many of the same smells and sights that filled his youth, but he also finds a town and its inhabitants that have been deeply changed by war and by the passage of time."--Wikipedia.