Description
Returning from fifteen years of exile, Pietro Spina comes back to his native Abruzzi determined to awaken the peasants to collective action, only to find that revolution is as morally demanding as it is politically urgent. In the midst of this struggle, a Catholic teacher, Don Benedetto, confronts the painful distance between faith and conviction when he learns that a former student has turned into a radical anarchist. Written as an anti-fascist and explicitly anti-Stalinist novel, Bread and Wine follows characters who test their ideals against betrayal, fear, and the temptation to trade freedom for new forms of control. With Silone’s spare, human-centered style and his deep sympathy for ordinary lives, the book explores conscience, solidarity, and the difficult search for justice when history offers no easy answers.
Available Editions
paperback
Signet Classics
Published Jun 7, 2005
279 pages
ISBN: 9780451529787
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Details
First Published
1937
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone.