{"product_id":"the-abruzzo-trilogy-fontamara-bread-and-wine-the-seed-beneath-the-snow-9781586420062","title":"The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara  Bread and Wine  The Seed Beneath the Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe impoverished  desolate mountain regions of the Abruzzo during Mussolinis reign provide the backdrop for the three greatest novels by Ignazio Silone  one of the twentieth centurys most important writers. In Fontamara  Bread and Wine  and The Seed Beneath the Snow - presented together for the first time in English to mark the centenary of the authors birth - Silone narrates the struggles of the cafoni  the farmers and peasants of his native Abruzzo  against poverty  natural disasters  and totalitarianism. The first novel in the series  Fontamara  is a political fable that portrays the bitter trials of the villagers of Pescina as they battle with landowners who have appropriated their only source of water. First published from his exile in Zurich in 1933  and banned in his own country  the novel was translated into twenty languages and won Silone instant international literary fame. Silones masterpiece  Bread and Wine  introduces the semi-autobiographical character Pietro Spina  an anti-Fascist revolutionary who returns to his homeland after fifteen years in exile. He seeks refuge among the Abruzzo peasants by posing as the priest Don Paolo Spada. Pietros story continues in The Seed Beneath the Snow  Silones personal favorite in the trilogy. Pietro Spina flees again and  with the police in close pursuit  is taken in by his grandmother Donna Maria Vincenza. Though comfortably settled in Italian bourgeois society  she jeopardizes her own life in order to protect him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280465387573,"sku":"ByrdShop_1586420062","price":169.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781586420062_3683cb03-bad6-4e7b-a0eb-b2110520658a.jpg?v=1780637514","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-abruzzo-trilogy-fontamara-bread-and-wine-the-seed-beneath-the-snow-9781586420062","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}