Bread and Wine (Signet Classics) by
Ignazio Silone
Excellent Book
One of the 20th centurys essential novels depicting Fascisms rise in Italy.
Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regimes use of
brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the
once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants,
students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.
Personal Review: Bread and Wine (Signet Classics) by Ignazio
Silone
This is the definitive account of one God that failed. It describes a man's
loss of faith during the 1930s in the international Communist movement.
Wanted as a terrorist, he slips back into southern Italy where he hides as a

Catholic priest recovering from tuberculosis. Fascism is rampant and war
with Ethiopia has given national purpose to Italians suffering from
economic stagnation. His priestly duties involve offering forgiveness to
Catholics saddled with a primitive and uncompromising faith. His contacts
in the Comintern underground demand his obedience to party dogma from
Moscow that he now sees as meaningless. While Silone offers no grand
solution to the dilemna that loss of faith presents, the book presents an
uncompromising and wonderfully written portrait of the strength and
weakness of humanity in the Godless world of the 20th Century.
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