num_pages: 269
description: An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.
language: English
title: A Bell for Adano
titlecomplete: A Bell for Adano
genres: Fiction, War, American, Italy, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 8394
places: Sicily
awards: awardedAt: -788893200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel
publisher: Knopf