Winter in Bellapalma - by Jens Bjørneboe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This comic novel by renowned Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This comic novel by renowned Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village: their lives, loves, and interactions with the locals, including involvement in a dispute between the fishermen and the town fathers who wish to promote the tourist industry. A shorter, lighter read than most of Bjørneboe's work, it nonetheless invokes social commentary with concise portraits of various personality types and the inevitable collision of values in modern life between greed/progress and traditional ways of life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"...a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Hemingway...prefigures [Bjørneboe's] later writings in important ways.</em>"-from the Introduction by Esther Greenleaf Mürer</p><br>
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