Don Camillo and Peppone

More timeless, bittersweet stories of life in Italy''s Lower Plain, most of which appear in English for the first time. They begin, as the last collection ended, with Don Camillo in exile in the mountains. But it isn''t long before this lightning conductor for problems in the Little World draws Peppone and all human nature to his door.

The rains follow with biblical ferocity and when the river bursts its banks, threatening his p...