Post by LHR02 on Sept 23, 2003 16:45:53 GMT -5
by Marlena De Blasi
from the back cover:
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice cafe a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost it's capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando-'the stranger,'
as she calls him-and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met.
.......
First off....this is a true story.
Secondly.....it is most aptly I suppose a 'chic' book.
Thirdly.....I devoured and totally adored this little book.
Venice....the sights, the aromas, the tastes waft up off of every single page. You are there, in the markets, the bridges, the wine cafes, at home on the Lido.....her writing is amazing. I can't think of any other 'travel' book that has so completely captured the essence of a city, flung me straight back there and set my travel related fingers skipping over the keyboard looking for a good flight.
If there is any small place in your heart that sometimes dreams of Venice......you'll never go wrong with this.
from the back cover:
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice cafe a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost it's capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando-'the stranger,'
as she calls him-and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met.
.......
First off....this is a true story.
Secondly.....it is most aptly I suppose a 'chic' book.
Thirdly.....I devoured and totally adored this little book.
Venice....the sights, the aromas, the tastes waft up off of every single page. You are there, in the markets, the bridges, the wine cafes, at home on the Lido.....her writing is amazing. I can't think of any other 'travel' book that has so completely captured the essence of a city, flung me straight back there and set my travel related fingers skipping over the keyboard looking for a good flight.
If there is any small place in your heart that sometimes dreams of Venice......you'll never go wrong with this.
