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A Private Affair (The New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics
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9781681376745
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A powerful World War II novel about a young soldier joining the anti-German resistance in occupied Italy, this classicwhich touches on everything from wartime dangers and adventures to desperate loveis regarded as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Italian literature. Miltonthe name is a nom de guerreis a member of a partisan band battling Italian Fascists and German forces in the chaotic last years of World War II. Before the war Milton was a student of English literature and a lover of poetry. He was in love with a girl, too, Fulvia, and from time to time shed invite him over to her rich familys fine house and have him read to her. Now, in the thick of war, he discovers that handsome Giorgio, his friend and fellow partisan, was sleeping with Fulvia at the time. Furious with jealousy, Milton hastens to have it out with Giorgio, but Giorgio has been captured by the Germans. A Private Affair tells the story of Miltons mad questthrough mud and fog, rain and terror, while barely evading enemy patrolsto rescue his friend, the better to settle a grudge from a lost world of peace. Beppe Fenoglios masterpiece is a peerless story of the violent heart and world.
- | Author: Beppe Fenoglio
- | Publisher: Nyrb Classics
- | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1681376741
- | ISBN-13: 9781681376745
- Author:
- Beppe Fenoglio
- Publisher:
- Nyrb Classics
- Publication Date:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 176 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1681376741
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681376745