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Finding Valentino

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Four Seasons In My Father's Italy

by Angela Di Sciascio
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2011
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Angela Di Sciascio embarks on a voyage that takes her through four seasons in her father's Italy.

Angela Di Sciascio's father can no longer describe his past, lost in a world ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. Deciding not to let his story fade, Angela embarks on a voyage that takes her through four seasons in her father's Italy, reconnecting to her ancestry and absorbing all of its chaos, beauty and style.
;Meal by meal at her father's family table and step by step through the Italian countryside, she slowly comes to understand the young Valentino who left for the new world. Along the way, she discovers the simple pleasures of rustic polenta high in the mountains, pesto on the Ligurian coast and shares melt-in-your-mouth rag with friends inla boisterous Rome. But she is always drawn back to the small hamlet tucked in the embrace of the Abruzzo mountains and the cuisine that feeds her soul, sharing with us her family's traditional recipes, as well as the joy of finding her father's home.
ISBN:
9780522858419
9780522858419
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
209x139x21mm
Weight:
0.28kg

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I loved this book as it combines travle, family and food. Angela writes with honesty and her descriptions are very visual which helps you to imagine how Italy changes thru the seasons. At times it is funny and also very emotional. It is a great book for people that know Italy or for those planning to visit Italy. Well recommended.

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Finding Valentino is Di Sciascio's search for her father's Italy which she can no longer glean from her father who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. We follow Di Sciascio as she takes us through a year in Italy broken into parts by the seasons. It is a story written with compassion and overall I would recommend it as a pleasurable read.




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