A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
by Marlena De Blasi, Marlena De Blasi
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Book Summary Information
Author: Marlena De BlasiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2002-06-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Book Review: A thousand days in venice review
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful little novel! If you love Italy as I do, you will love this story as it leads you through the day to day life of this interesting and colorful heroine throughout the city of Venice. Diplaced, lonely, living in this city that couldnt be further away from Saint Louis, Missouri in every way, she builds a new life for herself. The story is full of cooking, eating and enjoying the food of Venice as well as the people who live there.
Summary of A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance
He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice caf? a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando-"the stranger," as she calls him-and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met.
Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena is overwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its rituals and customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens up its arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippi caviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takes the tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to a candlelit trattor?a near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she and Fernando, two disparate souls, build an extraordinary life of passion and possibility.
Featuring Marlena's own incredible recipes, A Thousand Days in Venice is the enchanting true story of a woman who opens her heart-and falls in love with both a man and a city.
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