Fifth Estate - Tapa blanda

a "paean to the peasants the lowliest, the least, the last of rural Italy . . . told in long, lyrical sentences, beautifully translated, that unwind with the vivid details of stream-of-consciousness recall."
"Library Journal""

"[A] wonderfully vibrant memoir. The narrator's voice is exultant with the pleasures of recalling the old days and ways that exist now only in memory. This 'cycle' is his eulogy and lament."
--Publishers Weekly
a "paean to the peasants--the lowliest, the least, the last--of rural Italy . . . told in long, lyrical sentences, beautifully translated, that unwind with the vivid details of stream-of-consciousness recall."
--Library Journal

The first of his three classic autobiographical novels, The Fifth Estate chronicles the passing in our own time of an ageless civilization, that of the peasant world Camon was born into. The trilogy--which also includes Life Everlasting and Memorial--has appeared in translation worldwide since its publication in the 1970s.