The Moon and the Bonfires

Pavese is one of the few essential novelists of the mid-twentieth century

Susan Sontag

Pavese's nine short novels make up the most dense, dramatic, and homogeneous narrative cycle of modern Italy ... But above all they are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings

Italo Calvino

Cesare Pavese's cool, contemplative voice was the most important among postwar Italian writers

W. S. DiPiero

Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive

The New York Times Book Review

The Moon and the Bonfires [is Pavese's] masterpiece on the aftermath of the partisan war in the hills around Turin

The Daily Telegraph