A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance
A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance
Marlena de Blasi
* Set in the world's most romantic city, this exhilarating memoir tells what it's like to risk it all for love.
* Food lovers will adore this memoir in the tradition of La Cucina/ Like Water for Chocolate.
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Summary
When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up kids goodbye, and moves to Venice. Once there, she finds herself sitting in sugar-scented pasticcerie, strolling through sixteenth-century palazzi, renovating an apartment overlooking the seductive Adriatic Sea, and preparing to wed a virtual stranger in an ancient stone church.
As this transplanted American learns the hard way about the peculiarities of Venetian culture, we are treated to an honest, often comic view of how two middle-aged people, both set in their ways but also set on being together, build a life. A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE is filled with the foods and flavours of Italy and peppered with recipes and culinary observations. But the main course here is about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't know she was missing.
Product Description
Title - A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance
Edition -
Author - Marlena de Blasi
ISBN 13 - 9781844080205
Imprint - Virago Press Ltd
Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group
Date Published - 20/03/2003
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 130 x 198 x 22mm
Weight - 200 g
Languages - English