Bosco, a French/Italian writer, was nominated for the Nobel Prize four times.  He wrote this novella in 1945 in Morocco, shortly before his return to France.  It is beautifully written, a pastorale so to speak, with definite undertones of Huckleberry Finn.  Pascalet, a young boy, runs away from his caretaker to the forbidden river, upon which he finds an old weathered boat.  Only meaning to rest in it, he finds himself adrift, and then after a brief but frightening squall, ends up becoming grounded on […]