# The House on the Hill

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- Book: [The House on the Hill](https://www.bookquiver.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill) ([The House on the Hill.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill.md))
- Authors: [Cesare Pavese](https://www.bookquiver.com/cesare-pavese)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4137-052-0
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for The Society of Authors Translation Award 2022 June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no attachments and claims to be happy that way. But against his better judgement he is drawn into a circle of anti-fascists who congregate at a nearby tavern. As the authorities' net closes around his friends, Corrado must face a painful choice: emotional and political commitment, with all its dangers - or devastating retreat.