Elio Vittorini

"The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend, or flipping through the pages of a dictionary it is all the same to him - until he embarks on a journey back to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. In traveling through the Sicilian countryside and in variously hilarious and tragic conversations with its people - his indomitable mother in particular - he reconnects with his roots and rediscovers some basic human values."--BOOK JACKET.

Weergave van de activiteiten en onderlinge gesprekken van de leden van een Milanese verzetsgroep tegen het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, gebaseerd op gebeurtenissen in het leven van de auteur zelf.