The Moon and the Bonfires is an English translation of the novel La Luna e i Falò, by the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese.

[3] The novel is set in the small town of Santo Stefano Belbo, in Piedmont, north-west Italy.

The protagonist, known only by his nickname of Anguilla (Eel), has returned to his home town in the years immediately following the Second World War.

He left twenty-five years earlier and had made his fortune in the United States.

[5][6] The Moon and the Bonfires was one of two Pavese novels (the other being Dialoghi con Leucò) to be adapted by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub as part of their 1979 film From the Clouds to the Resistance.