About this title: Carlo Levi's timeless and moving depiction of classism and poverty in Lucania, a small Italian town where the vehemently anti-Fascist Levi was confined in 1935 as a political prisoner.
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Description: Near Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Slight tanning of pages-else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight and unmarked. A masterful account of a year spent in political exile, in a backward southern Italian village in 1935, for opposing the Mussolini dictatorship. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus
Date Published: 1947
Description: Fair. 1947. Farrar, Straus & Co. Hardcover. No prior owner marks. Tanned pages. Light edge wear and scuffing. Bumped corners and spine. No jacket. Slight curve from storage. Ship same or next day. More Christian books in our store. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Noonday Press
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780374503161ISBN:0374503168
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket Issued. This is a later printing of this soft cover Trade Paperback Religious Novelette. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye. This book is in wonderful condition with a very clean & bright cover. The condition is Very Good. The spine is smooth and the pages are very tight. The pages are clean, bright and have only a few pencil lines. This book has a previous owners address plate on the back inside cover with some page numbers marked in pencil. Nice Book! 268 ... read more
"This is an amazing book. The author, Carlo Levi, writes about his life as an Italian dissident during Mussolini's Fascist regime. He was exiled to a small village in southern Italy......I highly recommend this wonderful book."
"Carlo Levi, a young anti-fascist with a medical degree who chose to paint, write and oppose Mussolini rather than to practice medicine, was exiled in the 1930s to what was then called Lucania and is now known as Basilicata. The area was and is one of the poorest regions of Italy. The people of the village in the mountains in which he spent most of a year said that they were so isolated that even Christianity stopped before it reached them.
Levi, a native of Turin, could hardly have been sent to a more remote area or one more different from his city in northern Italy. Yet, he thoughtfully and affectionately tells the story of the superstitions, political maneuvering,love, hope, despair and unending hard work of the locals. The people and the place take on life through Levi's descriptions. As was Levi's departure, coming to the end of the book is bittersweet."
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