Memorial (1000 Books to Read)

I agree with James Mustich's assessment of this beautiful book. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Only 120 pages long, Memorial is a small book about a small life. Yet the reader who opens it will discover a story that is unforgettably moving in its sympathy, dignity, and desire to articulate the deepest human needs. Written by one of the most notable of Italy’s post-World War II writers, this enchanted autobiographical novel is steeped in the peasant culture of Camon’s native Veneto, an ageless and all-but-vanished way of life the author has left behind for the city and the twentieth century.