num_pages: 272
description: In the south of Italy, between Apulia and Calabria, lies a land that is barren, desolate, and malarial, where the peasants live out their existence in poverty and in the presence of death. it was here in primitive Lucania, at the start of the Ethiopian war (1935), that Carlo Levi, doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters, was confined as a political prisoner because of his uncompromising opposition to Fascism. Christ Stopped at Eboli is Levi's classic, starkly beautiful account of a place beyond hope and a people abandoned by history.
language: English
title: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
titlecomplete: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Classics, History, Italy, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Travel, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 8152
places: Aliano, Basilicata (Italy)
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux