A man returns to his native village in the Langhe after years spent in America, searching for roots and answers. Yet the familiar landscape, lit by the moon and the bonfires of village feasts, holds dark secrets and painful memories. Amid lost friendships, unfulfilled loves, and fates shattered by war, his journey becomes a confrontation with the past and with the impossibility of reclaiming what once was.
An intense and poetic novel, in which Cesare Pavese weaves the archaic myth of the land with the disillusionment of the postwar era, giving voice to the universal longing for belonging and identity.
