Vanilla Beans and Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany - Couverture souple

Dusi, Isabella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743209354 ISBN 13 : 9780743209359

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2001

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Enticing' - TIMES on Saturday
'Vivid' - DAILY EXPRESS
'Communicates well the rhythm of time-honoured activities in a close-knit community, which, over the centuries has defended itself against the Florentines, Sienese, Spanish and French.' SUNDAY TIMES
'The subtitle of VANILLA BEANS AND BRODO is 'Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany' and it jolly well is. She actually describes the village in magnificent terms and it makes me want to go there. I know when I get there she actually talks you through this wonderful walk on a Sunday morning through some secret gardens. This is a place that she points out gets four lines in a guidebook - she manages to fill an entire book and really gives you a sense of the place. I feel I could go there, walk into the right cafe, order the right thing and feel completely at home'
Simon Calder, reviewer at the Independent talking on Front Row (12/04/2001)
'Her chronicle of life there throughout the seasons displays detailed observation and understanding' SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH
'The best book on Tuscany I have ever read' MARY PACHNOS
'Dusi does far more for Tuscany than Peter Mayle did for Provence in her fascinating look at day-to-day life in the Italian hills' LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
'Deeply satisfying' DONCASTER STAR
'Suffused with humility and detail so that it is the Montalcinesi who assume the highest profile' SOUTH WALES ARGUS
'Dusi's account of her assimilation into the customs, people and food of her new home in Tuscany is the stuff of daydreams' WOMAN & HOME
READERS REVIEWS:
E. Graeme Henry, Lawyer, Melbourne. Australia.
"Excellente, magnifico, fantastico! I've just read your book. I knew it would be good, but not this good! Your descriptive writing skills and word pictures you paint are so graphic, so vivid. On the walk to pick jonquils I felt as if I was watching from close by - if you had seen me, I was smiling!."

Karen Bergeson
California USA
This is a book I will read time and again - it will be a while before I lend this one out! My favourite passage is about meeting Karen and Eddie and musing about what exactly Italy does to travellers. It's exactly how I feel - thanks for putting it into words.

Jane Williams
New Zealand
What a delight! I'm glued to it - it just flows as I turn every page and the history seems part of the day to day life in Montalcino in the 21st century. My days at work seem so long when I only want to get back home and into the next chapter.
'It is, without doubt, a joy' DORSET ECHO
'Dusi tells the story of 12 months in this remarkable world, and does so with such evocative and glowing prose that she transports the reader to her new found home' WIGAN EVENING POST
'Another tale of outsiders making a new life in Italy would need to be something special. Luckily, Isabella Dusi's account of her acceptance of the proud, warm-hearted natives...is absolutely captivating. IRISH TIMES
'Makes our mouths water....brings tears to our eyes...In short, she makes us want to book a flight immediately.' IRISH TIMES
'Full of the passions and pleasures of life in the midst of a warm-hearted and proudly independent community in the Tuscan Hills' DAILY EXPRESS
''Well researched and is clearly written from the heart' NEW BOOKS MAG

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Isobel Dusi visited Italy with her Australian husband Lou, little did they imagine that life would change forever. But, utterly besotted with the fragrant warmth and good-natured conviviality of Southern Tuscany, they decided to sell up their lives in the big city and move thousands of miles to follow the dream of a life more in keeping with ancient rhythms and time-honoured traditions of the Mediterranean. After months of searching they settled upon Montalcino, an intriguing hilltop medieval village with a reputation for some of the finest wine in Italy. VANILLA BEANS AND BRODO is an account of Isobel's hard-won acceptance into this tempestuous, warm-hearted and proudly independent community, whose voluble passions for home grown wine and Tuscan cuisine, for football and ancient traditions and festivals, puts paid to the myth that life in rural Tuscany is tranquil. Isobel and Lou are gradually transformed into Isabella and Luigi in this charming account of Tuscan village life that really gets to the beating heart of an Italian community - its joys, pleasures, anxieties, but above all, its absorbing eccentricities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743209354
• ISBN 13: 9780743209359
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible