Fontamara

About “Fontamara”

A 1933 novel by the Italian author Ignazio Silone, written when he was a refugee from Fascist Italy in Switzerland. It was Silone's first novel and is regarded as his most famous work, receiving worldwide acclaim and selling more than a million and a half copies in twenty-seven languages. It was first published in German translation in Switzerland in 1933, with an English translation issued by Penguin Books in September 1934, and was adapted into a film by Carlo Lizzani in 1980. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)