La luna y las fogatas

The Moon and the Campfires tells the story of Anguilla, a bastard raised in the Piedmontese hills and fields, a peasant serf who travels the world, makes his fortune in the United States, and returns to his land a respected and honest man. It is the novel of childhood nostalgia, of the search for identity, of the description of Italian rural life during fascism and after the war. Anguilla returns after twenty years of absence and decides to talk with his usual friend, Nuto, to reflect on the resistance to Nazi-fascism, on the relationship between masters and servants, on the lack of understanding between the power of always and a world who rebels, aware that change should not necessarily mean leaving things as they were.