The Little World of Don Camillo
In my old library, I have three volume books: Ahmad Shamloo’s (of course, the censored version) poems and translations (poems, shorts novels). One of the translated stories was the first chapter of the book: The little world of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi.
Don Camillo is a priest in a small village in Italy. There, he deals with the new chosen mayor of the city (another villager) named Peppone, who is a communist.
Their conflicts (the pries and the mayor) are very comedic but very deep too. I really enjoyed reading that first chapter.
The book was been written in 1948 when communist and socialist parties in Italy were very influential in politics, and Catholic Church dealt with them daily.
Later I found the complete book in the Internet (English version), printed it, and added to my library.
The second chapter is (A Baptism). Peppone wants to name his born son: Lenin, but Don Camillo has other ideas…
Or the chapter (The Defeat) which is about the sport game between church team and socialist team.
If you like to read it online, you can Google. However, it's much better to have a printed version.
The little world of Don Camillo
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======================== P.S. this book, just like “the little Prince”, has many original drawing by the author.
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