Ruin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780910395847)

Ruin is an acclaimed 1954 novel by Italian Beppe Fenoglio. It's the story of Augustine Braida, a boy who serves the Rabino family, whose first-person account of life in Langhe paints a vivid portrait of early twentieth-century Italian peasant life. Told with terrible humility and great force, it is a compassionate and harrowing narrative of peasant endurance in the face of overwhelming hardship.

Born into a working-class family in the town of Alba lying in that part of the Piedmont called LeLanghe, Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963) belonged to the generation of young Italian writers whose works were molded by their World War II experience and the anti-Fascist Resistance many took part in. Fenoglio fought as a partisan against the German troops occupying Italy, and the major part of his literature is connected with the events of the time.

Author: Beppe Fenoglio
ISBN-10: 0910395845
ISBN-13: 9780910395847
Publisher: Marlboro Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.28w x 0.39d