The Seed Beneath the Snow

Download or read book The Seed Beneath the Snow written by Ignazio Silone and published by New York : Atheneum. This book was released on 1965 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in The Abruzzo Trilogy, follows the fugitive Pietro Spina as he refuses to accept the conditions of pardon for his transgressions against the fascist state and flees to the mountains. As in Fontamara and Bread and Wine, Silone achieves a rich harmony of allegory and realism in his portrayal of the cafoni of Abruzzo and their struggle for freedom. An extraordinary, unburnished vision of the conflict between good and evil, communicating to its reader, in the words of F.W. Dupee, "Silone's deep integrity, his sufferings and aspirations, his radical sense of the world's wrongs.