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Cooking With Fernet Branca

By James , Hamilton-Paterson

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
ISBN
9780571267675, 057126767X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
418 kB (428095 bytes)
Series
Gerald Samper 1
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Expatriate artists;Electronic books;Fiction;Expatr

Description

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director. The neighbours' lives disastrously intertwine. The entourages of the rock star and the director come and go; mysterious black helicopters bring news of mayhem in Voynova, Marta's homeland; and along the way the English obsession with Tuscany is satirized mercilessly.

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