Il seme sotto la neve

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A. Mondadori, 1961 - Fascism - 593 pages
The seed beneath the snow, the final novel in the Abruzzo Trilogy and the author's favorite of the three, continues the story of the fugitive Pietro Spina. Taking refuge with his wealthy grandmother, Spina ultimately refuses to accept the conditions of pardon for his transgressions against the fascist state, which she obtains on his behalf from her, and flees to the mountains. There, he shelters with the underground revolution and makes, once again, their cause his own. Achieving a rich harmony of allegory and realism, The seed beneath the snow is an extraordinary, unburnished vision of the conflict between good and evil, communicating to its reader "Silone's deep integrity, his sufferings and aspirations, his radical sense of the world's wrongs" (F.W. Dupee).

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