Description
Three young university friends flee the city for a languid summer in the rolling hills of Piedmont, where days of wandering, wine, and teasing gradually give way to something darker and more searching. As their carefree bravado thins, they confront the uneasy space between adolescence and adulthood—desire, boredom, cruelty, and the longing to feel truly alive. In Pavese’s spare, lyrical style, the landscape becomes a mirror for modern solitude, pressing the characters toward questions about meaning, responsibility, and the values that can survive a world growing chaotic and indifferent. Blending psychological insight with a haunting sense of inevitability, this novel turns a summer escape into a meditation on what it costs to become oneself.
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Published Jan 1, 1967
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Details
First Published
1967
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Devil in the Hills by Cesare Pavese.