Comrade Don Camillo [Hardcover]

Giovanni Guareschi (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd; First Edition edition (December 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848822870
• ISBN-13: 978-0848822873
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,690,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don Camillo will pep you up to kick any rascals in humour, August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Comrade Don Camillo (Hardcover)

My home library contains some fabulous titles from Signor Guareschi. Over the years my wife and my brother and I have started guarding them with our lives. Particularly the above title. What a sublime humour and a bygone era. I went to Italy to see Palmar and the river Po. Made lot of Italian friends on that trip. Read Guareschi. Particularly the House that Nino Built.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A blast from the past, December 17, 2003

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This review is from: Comrade Don Camillo (Hardcover)

I read this book when I was only thirteen, which wasn't old enough to grasp all of the subtleties in Guareschi's political and cultural satire and humor, but I did get some of it, despite my basically still being a kid. The book pokes fun at both Italian and Soviet politics through the antics of the irrepressible Comrade Camillo, a mischievous priest who has his own agenda in accepting the invitation to visit the Soviet Union. Guareschi wrote a number of other successful books, including a series of Don Camillo books, but I don't know how many of them were translated into English. If there were, I never saw any of them, but I enjoyed this one, and it now stands as a window into another era of Cold War politics that is rapidly receding in the wake of the Berlin Wall's coming down and now the events of of 9/11.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovable Italian priest tours USSR with his own agenda, January 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Comrade Don Camillo (Hardcover)

Giovanni Guareschi's irascible, irrepressible
Don Camilloworms his way into a select group
chosen by his rival Peppone (nowa Senator) to
receive a guided tour of Kruschev's USSR.
Can Don Camillo turn the hearts of a few
"godless Communists" without bringing ruin
on his old friend?

This fifth Don Camillo book dates from 1964
and is the only one to take the beloved
characters from their Po Valley setting, but
Guareschi still works his magic on the reader.