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An Umbrian Love Story (Italian Memoirs)
The realtor can only push open the massive wooden doors to the apartment and invite me to lean into the debris. Save a few skeletal boards, there is no floor. The walls are bared to medieval bricks. Where a chandelier once hung, a rusted, hand-wrought iron chain swings from an 18-foot, frescoed vault like a hangman's rope. With a tempestuous calculation of its potential, I...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
April 2007
by Allen & Unwin
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Marlena and Fernando move on from San Casciano for a new adventure in Orvieto, Umbria. After months and months of house-hunting they fall in love with house with the ballroom on Via del Duomo. The people of Orvieto offer unique socialcultural norms and expectations and once again Marlena is known as ‘The American,’ the outsider. Her desire to create a warm social network is hindered because that is not the way things are done in Orvieto.
I lo...more
Marlena and Fernando move on from San Casciano for a new adventure in Orvieto, Umbria. After months and months of house-hunting they fall in love with house with the ballroom on Via del Duomo. The people of Orvieto offer unique socialcultural norms and expectations and once again Marlena is known as ‘The American,’ the outsider. Her desire to create a warm social network is hindered because that is not the way things are done in Orvieto.
I lo...more
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A delightful series of books! The travel, romance, and recipies were all wonderful. I plan to reread the series in the fall. Interesting and a very soothing to read...also made me want to try new foods and recipies!!
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I really enjoyed this book. "gnocchi made with potatoes or ricotta or wild spinach that shoots up along the riverbeds. Wild mushrooms, wild duck, wild hare, chestnuts and hazelnuts and walnuts". yum...
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