← Ignazio SiloneFontamaraby Ignazio SiloneItalian peasants resist fascism in their small village communityFind on Amazon↗About the authorIgnazio SiloneItalian novelist and political activist whose Fontamara is a powerful depiction of the suffering of southern Italian peasants under fascism. His fiction has the moral urgency of a writer who experienced both fascism and Stalinist communism.More by Ignazio SiloneBread and WineUnderground priest questions faith and solidarity during fascism→The Seed Beneath the SnowItalian resistance fighter's spiritual awakening amid totalitarianism→The School for Dictators→A Handful of Blackberries→