Fontamara novel

Fontamara is a novel by the Italian autor Iganazio Silone.That  was written in the context of a political climate. Ignazio Silone tryed to highlights the injestice in Italion politics in his novel. It received worldwide acclaim and sold more than a million and a half copies in twenty seven languages. Malani Govinnage translated this novel to Sinhala language.     

  Background

   Fontamara was very poor village in Italian. The ruler here put great pressure on the peasants and workers. For the frist  time in Italian literture peasants were the protagonists and their agricultural activities are described in great detail through the seosons. When the novel is set , the survival of peasants depended on subsistence agriculture on the land of the large landowners.Because of this, to farmers and to workers improved many problems in their family and socity. In fontamara , Silone captures the fatigue andagricultural workers which and previously been relatively umdocumented.   

In this novel have lot of characters.Silone mixed poor person and very rich person there.An the three narrators who tell the story. The three narrators,Giva, his wife, and his son ,and Berardo, Elivira, Don Circoctanza, Impresario, Solito Sconosciuto and ect..