← Ignazio SiloneThe Seed Beneath the Snowby Ignazio SiloneItalian resistance fighter's spiritual awakening amid totalitarianismFind 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 SiloneFontamaraItalian peasants resist fascism in their small village community→Bread and WineUnderground priest questions faith and solidarity during fascism→The School for Dictators→A Handful of Blackberries→