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Comrade Don Camillo Giovanni Guareschi

Comrade Don Camillo By Giovanni Guareschi

Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi

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When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience, he must accept the battling priest among a group of Italian activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. There they discover a surprise common denominator, more radical than any political ideology.

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Comrade Don Camillo: No. 4 in the Don Camillo Series by Giovanni Guareschi

In No. 4 of the newly translated Don Camillo series, Peppone loses out on a matter of conscience and must accept the presence of Don Camillo among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, the battling priest becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation.

Comrade Don Camillo Reviews

'Those who read The Little World of Don Camillo will need no more than the news of this new volume to send them quickly to their bookshops - so lovely, so humorous, so wise.' Harper's & Queen

About Giovanni Guareschi

Giovanni Guareschi was born in 1909 in Fontanelle di Roccabianca in the Province of Parma. In 1926 his family succumbed to the economic depression under the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini, which meant that Giovanni had to leave the University of Parma without a degree and went to work in a sugar factory, a bicycle compound and variously as a sign painter and mandolin teacher. A break came after he began submitting cartoons to the satirical magazine Bertoldo and from 1936 he was the chief editor of Bertoldo. In 1943, after the Allies invaded Italy he was arrested by the Germans and incarcerated in prison camps in Poland, where he used his developing talents as journalist, writer, sketcher and cartoonist to become one of the animators of the Italian Resistance. Among the partisans in the mountains, communists fought alongside monarchists, republicans and Catholics, burying their differences for the good of the people. Here unity, community, freedom over political ideology, individual responsibility, and a sense of belonging were the values that defeated fascism, and post-war became the values which inspired Guareschis own weekly satirical magazine, Candido, and his fictional stories. The big political picture became, in microcosm, the Little World of Don Camillo, the particular tensions and need for unity transferring to the fictional Don Camillo and his natural enemy, Peppone, the Communist Mayor, while the voice of Guareschi's conscience became that of his third main character high up on the cross above the altar of the village church, forever surprising us mere mortals with his warmth and wisdom. A full biography of the author is printed in the latest edition of The Little World of Don Camillo.

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CIN1900064332G
9781900064330
1900064332
Comrade Don Camillo: No. 4 in the Don Camillo Series by Giovanni Guareschi
Giovanni Guareschi
The Don Camillo Series
Used - Good
Paperback
Pilot Productions Ltd
2017-04-28
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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