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by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have worked the land since time immemorial. And it is a story about the homeless multitudes, travelers, and tinkers, roaming Europe during the hardscrabble nineteen-twenties and thirties. In this expansive novel, reminiscent of Bertolucci's masterpiece 1900 in its scope and subject matter, these two worlds meet when the Brunis open their great barn and offer it as a refuge for those in need of a warm, dry, and safe place to sleep and eat.
The barn becomes font and inspiration for a series of vivid stories involving sundry strangers, the Bruni parents themselves, and their nine children - seven boys and two girls - who will grow into young men and women during World War I and its aftermath. Told in the tradition of country folktales and framed by the devastating years of strife - two world wars and the years of fascism - these stories will delight readers from the first page to the last. Manfredi's A Winter's Night provides a timely reminder that simple values and a sense of solidarity with our fellow human beings remain of vital importance, above all in a world undergoing momentous and rapid change.
"In this novel, Manfredi displays a freshness, a sincerity, and a tangibility
in his prose that come not so much from an author's fantasy, but from
memory itself." - Gazzetta di Modena
"Manfredi is a masterful novelist who here transforms, once again, stories that
have been passed down through generations into a grand epic adventure." - IBS
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Valerio Massimo Manfredi is a professor of classical archaeology at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. He has many works of fiction, including the "Alexander" trilogy, published in over 20 countries. He is the author of The Ides of March, published by Europa Editions in 2010.
Christine Feddersen is the wife of Valerio Massimo and his translator.
They live in Italy, in a small town near Bologna.
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