a land of rolling hills covered in vineyards. It is an area where he felt at home, but he recognised the harsh and brutal lives that poor peasants had making a living from the land. Bitter struggles took place between Germans and partisans in this area. The land became part of Pavese's personal mythology. In The Moon and the Bonfires, the protagonist tells a story of drinking beer in a bar in America. A man comes in whom he recognizes as being from the valleys of Le Langhe by his way of walking and his outlook. He speaks to him in dialect suggesting a bottle of their local wine would be better than the beer. After some years in America, the protagonist returns to his home village. He explores Le Langhe with a friend who had remained in the area. He finds out that so many of his contemporaries have died in sad circumstances, some as partisans shot by the Germans, while a notable local beauty had been executed by partisans as a fascist spy. Books Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor), poems 1936; expanded edition 1943. See also: Paesi Tuoi (Your Villages), novel 1941. La Spiaggia (The Beach), novel 1941. Feria d'agosto (August Holiday) 1946. Il Compagno (The Comrade), novel 1947. Dialoghi con Leucò (Dialogues with Leucò), philosophical dialogues between classical Greek characters, 1947. Il diavolo sulle colline (The Devil in the Hills), novel 1948. Prima che il gallo canti (Before the Cock Crows), two novellas. La casa in collina (The House on the Hill) and Il carcere (The Prison), 1949. La bella estate (The Beautiful Summer), three novellas including Tra donne sole (Women on Their Own), 1949. La luna e i falò (The Moon and the Bonfires), novel 1950. Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (Death Will Come and Have your Eyes), poems, 1951. Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935–1950, The Business of Living: Diaries 1935–1950 (published in English as The Burning Brand), 1952 Saggi Letterari, literary essays. Racconti, – two volumes of short stories. Lettere 1926–1950, – two volumes of letters. Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950, translated by Geoffrey Brock. (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) References External links Cesare Pavese poems translated into English by Linh Dinh. Milk Magazine Of Sea and Words and Toil: The Poetry of Cesare Pavese by Olivier Burckhardt, Quadrant. 48:7/8, (2004) 82–85 Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature by Lawrence G. Smith