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Indlæser... That Summer in Sicily: A Love Storyaf Marlena de Blasi
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  Natt90 | Feb 14, 2023 |    ) LauGal | Aug 16, 2016 | This nonfiction work is subtitled: A Love Story. It’s part travel, part biography, and definitely a love story. It’s jump-off point is a villa in the hills of Sicily that the author and her husband came across on their travels. They wound up staying there for months, and the author, in particular, was completely taken by the owner’s story. Most of the book focuses on Tosca relating the story of how she came to be the ward of Prince Leo and how she inherited the property that she turned into the Villa Donnafugata (Villa of the Fleeing Woman). There is definitely love here. Love of a landscape and of a cultural heritage, love of learning, love of a man and woman, love of life! Her descriptions are luscious; and you can practically taste the food. I got completely caught up in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but my rating is affected by the fact that I had an ARC (advance reader’s copy), so there were numerous editing errors. Also, I would hope that a regular publication might have some photos of the area. I normally round down a half star, but in this case I think I’ll round up to 4 stars. (  ) BookConcierge | Jan 22, 2016 |  ) Janet23 | Feb 17, 2015 | La protagonista es una niña, llamada Tosca, a la que veremos crecer, desde los nueve años que tiene cuando su padre decide venderla a “El Príncipe”, el dueño de las tierras donde transcurre la acción, hasta su madurez, desde la que nos relatará toda su vida. (Haz un clic en "leer más" para seguir leyendo la reseña de este libro) La historia empieza con la llegada de una periodista norteamericana a Sicilia, donde descubrirá las características de esta tierra: Su carácter reservado, la discreción de sus familias, la belleza de sus tierras, los sabores de sus comidas. En la isla sólo Tosca aceptará hablar con ella, y acabará contándole la historia de su vida: Una vida marcada por el amor y la admiración hacia Leo, “El Príncipe” que gobierna las tierras con un cariño y respeto máximos por sus campesinos y empleados, por los que luchará para que se conviertan en dueños de sus tierras y destinos, decidido a enfrentarse a vida o muerte contra las familias sicilianas que desean oprimir a los labriegos. Es una novela agradable de leer, y a ratos ha conseguido emocionarme. No es dulzona ni abusa del dramatismo romántico, y se lee con facilidad. Algunos de los giros argumentales del libro están bien conseguidos, y el final consigue dejarte con ganas de leer más. Un buen libro para enamorarte de Sicilia Iván Adrián Martínez Ricarte ivan@librosyliteratura.es LilianaL | May 5, 2012 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away, writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she finds, accidentally, one summer while traveling with her husband, Fernando. There de Blasi is befriended by Tosca, the patroness of the villa, an elegant and beautiful woman-of-a-certain-age who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of Sicily descended from the French nobles of Anjou. Sicily is a land of contrasts: grandeur and poverty, beauty and sufferance, illusion and candor. In a luminous and tantalizing voice, That Summer in Sicily re-creates Toscas life, from her impoverished childhood to her fairy-tale adoption and initiation into the glittering life of the princes palace, to the dawning and recognition of mutual love. But when Prince Leo attempts to better the lives of his peasants, his defiance of the local Mafias grim will to maintain the historical imbalance between the haves and the have-nots costs him dearly. The present-day narrative finds Tosca sharing her considerable inherited wealth with a harmonious society composed of many of the womennow widowedwho once worked the princes land alongside their husbands. How the Sicilian widows go about their tasks, care for one another, and celebrate the rituals of a humble, well-lived life is the heart of this book. Showcasing the same writerly gifts that made bestsellers of A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, That Summer in Sicily, and de Blasi s marvelous storytelling, remind us that in order to live a rich life, one must embrace both lifes sorrow and its beauty. Here is an epic drama that takes readers from Sicilys remote mountains to chaotic post-war Palermo, from the intricacies of forbidden love to the havoc wreaked by Sicilys eternally bewildering culture. No library descriptions found. |
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Sicilia es una tierra de contrastes: grandeza y pobreza, belleza y sufrimiento, ilusión y franqueza. Con una voz luminosa y seductora, Un verano en Sicilia recrea la vida de Tosca, desde la pobreza de su infancia, pasando por su fantástica adopción y su iniciación en la vida fastuosa del palacio del príncipe, hasta los albores y el reconocimiento del amor correspondido. Sin embargo, cuando el príncipe Leo trata de mejorar las condiciones de vida de los campesinos, su desafío a la voluntad nefasta de la mafia local de mantener el desequilibrio histórico entre ricos y pobres le costará caro.