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Lädt ... The Seamstress of Sardinia: A Novelvon Bianca Pitzorno
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I thought this novel was a delightful trip to another place and time. I’m always pleased when I get to enjoy books translated into English because I feel that broadens my cultural literacy. It’s always shocking to read about how hard people can work for so little return - it makes me grateful to be a well fed American. I liked this story but had a hard time rating this. This was a gift for Christmas from one of my sons and I voluntarily chose to rate it. I've given it a 4.5* rating. Parts of this story read slowly but it had a lot of feels to it. Part of this is it hit somewhat close to home, as my mother lost her first fiance at Pearl Harbor in WWII. Anyway, it was all tied up at the end. It read like a memoire, only this is fiction. La Pitzorno è un' amatissima autrice per ragazzi, che coi suoi libri ha appassionato generazioni di giovani lettori; da alcuni anni però si cimenta anche in opere più mature, come questo romanzo, in cui tuttavia resta un'ingenuità di fondo che lo pone in una sorta di limbo fra l'infanzia e l'età adulta. Lo definirei un libro per bambini cresciuti, che con toni delicati ed uno stile garbato ci porta per mano in un' Italia perduta ed un po' fiabesca, fatta di aneddoti improbabili e personaggi eccentrici che cattureranno la nostra attenzione fin da subito; purtroppo però andando avanti l'impostazione cambia e brillantezza ed ironia lasciano il posto ad atmosfere sentimentali e melodrammatiche, che stonano con quanto letto fino a quel momento. L'epilogo poi è frettoloso e raffazzonato, succede più in quelle poche pagine che in tutto il resto del romanzo. Peccato perchè le premesse erano ottime, ma stando così le cose è un' occasione mancata, un libro riuscito solo per metà. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century??a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani. In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems??and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her. Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge in all their vitality, vanity, and fragility??flawed yet congenial people who are not quite what they pretend to be. There is the Marchesa Esther, who rides horses and studies mechanics and ancient Greek; Miss Lily Rose, a spirited American journalist who commissions a special corset??with pockets to hide more than just her flaws; the Provera sisters with their expensive Parisian fashions that belie their financial hardships; and Assuntina, the wild child. There are men, young, old, and in between; love affairs and broken hearts; and even a murder (or was it suicide?). And at the center, watching and waiting is the seamstress herself, an intelligent, ambitious girl with a tender heart and her own impossible dream. An irresistible literary confection rich in atmosphere and period detail and packed with compelling characters. The Seamstress of Sardinia transports us to a long-ago world not so removed from our own??to a society rigidly divided by wealth and shaped by passion, hope, ambition, and love??the elemental forces that drive Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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