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The Beautiful Summer

3.49 (4,985 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Cesare Pavese

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction

'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...'


It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a fateful friendship with Amelia, a stylish and sophisticated artist's model who envelops her in a dazzling new world of bohemian artists and intoxicating freedom. Under the spell of her new friends, Ginia soon falls in love with Guido, an enigmatic young painter. It's the start of a desperate love affair, charged with false hope and overwhelming passion - destined to last no longer than the course of a summer.

The Beautiful Summer is a gorgeous coming-of-age tale of lost innocence and first love, by one of Italy's greatest writers.

'Pavese, to me, is a constant source of inspiration' Jhumpa Lahiri

'One of the few essential novelists of the mid-twentieth century' Susan Sontag

'[Pavese writes books of] extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meaning' Italo Calvino

'For my trip to Los Angeles, I'm packing The Beautiful Summer,
a slender account of love in 1930s Italy' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse

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Product Details
  • Weight: 85g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jun 2018
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241983393

About Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese was born in 1908 in Santo Stefano Belbo a village in the hills of Piedmont. He worked as a translator (of Melville Joyce and Faulkner) and as an editor for the publishing house Einaudi Editore while also publishing his own poetry and a string of successful novels including The House on the Hill and The Moon and the Bonfires. Never actively anti-Fascist himself he was nevertheless sent into internal exile in Calabria in 1935 for having aided other subversives. He killed himself in 1950 shortly after receiving Italy's most prestigious literary prize the Strega. Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton Anything is Possible Oh William! Amy and Isabelle Abide With Me The Burgess Boys Olive Kitteridge and Olive Again. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award the International Dublin Literary Award the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.

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