A unique political coming of age story now in English for the first time An NYRB Classics Original Walter Ferranini has been born and bred a man of the left. His father was a worker and an anarchist Walter himself is a Communist. In the 1930s he left Mussolinis Italy to fight Franco in Spain. After Francos victory he left Spain for exile in the United States. With the end of the war he returned to Italy to work as a labor organizer and to build a new revolutionary order. Now in the late 1950s Wa