Antonia and her daughters

Antonia and her daughters

Marlena De Blasi

Book - 2012

Seeking some peace and quiet from renovations at via Del Duomo, Marlena de Blasi escapes to the mountains of Tuscany where she meets the extraordinary Antonia, imperious matriarch of four generations of strong-willed Tuscan women. The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice.

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Subjects
De Blasi, Marlena.
Women > Italy > Tuscany.
Interpersonal relations > Italy > Tuscany.
Country life > Italy > Tuscany.
Tuscany (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Tuscany (Italy) > Description and travel.
Published
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin 2012.
Language
English
Main Author
Marlena De Blasi (-)
Physical Description
viii, 326 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN
9781742374079
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Review by Booklist Review

De Blasi, author of A Thousand Days in Venice (2002), digs a little deeper in her latest memoir, chronicling not only her own experiences but also the story of a passionate Tuscan matriarch. When Marlena accepts the offer of a friend's isolated cottage, in order to finish the book she is working on in solitude, she gets more than she bargained for when she meets Antonia, a feisty octogenarian rightfully suspicious of expatriates with romantic notions of life and love in the Italian countryside. As the two form a prickly friendship, Antonia begins to reveal, layer by layer, the harrowing, heart-wrenching tale of her wartime experiences, as she struggled, at great personal cost, to protect her family. De Blasi's liquid prose will draw readers into this testament to love, loss, friendship, and, ultimately, survival.--Flanagan, Margaret Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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