The House on the Hill - Cesare Pavese Annemart Pilon Zijn hopeloze liefde leidt tot

Zijn hopeloze liefde leidt tot een moord

maar ook die jongen die wél zijn school zou afmaken

We ontmoeten onderweg mevrouw Dalloway (die later in een eigen roman terugkeert)

left by her husband

Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s

The House on the Hill - Cesare Pavese Annemart Pilon Zijn hopeloze liefde leidt totJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the city, Corrado returns to the safety of the hills and the care of his two doting landladies. He has no attachments, no obligations. Yet against his better judgement he is drawn to the easy warmth of a circle of anti fascists who congregate at a nearby tavern, and confronted with a painful choice: emotional and political commitment,