Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

The Abruzzo Cycle #1

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

190 pages first pub 1933 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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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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