by Cesare Pavese · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241983393
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«The Beautiful Summer» is a coming-of-age novel by Cesare Pavese, published by Penguin Books in paperback (112 pages, in English).
In 1930s Italy, Ginia, a sixteen-year-old girl, meets Amelia, an artist's model, and enters a bohemian world of painters. She falls in love with Guido and lives a summer of discoveries and intense emotions. A bildungsroman about the loss of innocence and first love.
This edition belongs to the Penguin European Writers collection and includes an introduction by Elizabeth Strout. The work was originally published as «La bella estate» in 1949.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and Italian literary classics who want a short story set in the 1930s.
Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
