Winter in Bellapalma

This comic novel by renowned Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village: their lives loves and interactions with the locals including involvement in a dispute between the fishermen and the town fathers who wish to promote the tourist industry. A shorter lighter read than most of Bjørneboes work it nonetheless invokes social commentary with concise portraits of various personality types and the inevitable collision of values in modern life between greed/progress and traditional ways of life.