That Summer in Sicily, Marlena de Blasi
That Summer in Sicily, Marlena de Blasi
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That Summer in Sicily
A Love Story

Author: Marlena de Blasi

Narrator: Marlena de Blasi

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2008

Synopsis

That summer in Sicily, Marlena de Blasi would enter into a world of unforgettable magic. There, in a forgotten time and place, she would discover the secret Sicilian villa of Donnafugatta, where life was ruled by ritualand by the unassailable seventyyearold matriarch and protectress, Tosca. Willowy and aloof, with an aura of a distant time, Tosca was a woman whose life story begged to be told. In the warmth of Toscas kitchen, where ancient blessings are murmured and Pecorino grated over simmering pots of purple eggplants, the story of Toscas fairytale romance with an Italian prince would unfold. This bountiful feast for the imagination is filled with gorgeous food, largerthanlife characters, beauty, tragedy, and a love that fills the heart.

About Marlena de Blasi

Marlena de Blasi has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant, and a restaurant critic. She is the author of A Thousand Days in Venice, Regional Foods of Northern Italy, and Regional Foods of Southern Italy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on October 24, 2016

Is it a true story, as author Marlena de Blasi, says? It reads more like a fairy tale to me, and a gorgeously lyrical one at that. The pages drip with luscious descriptions. I read it while I was in Sicily, but I would have enjoyed it just as much, if I’d read it at home.......more

Goodreads review by Julie on October 02, 2008

Memoirs can be tricky things. How good is a person’s memory, especially if the events that are in the distant past? It can extremely be tricky if a writer is recording someone else’s memories. Memoirist and food writer Marlena De Blasi has all of these issues to deal with in her fourth adventure, Th......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on January 22, 2016

3.5 *** 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 parti......more

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