Cooking With Fernet Branca
Registered by pinkozcat of Claremont, Western Australia Australia on 2/23/2005
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by pinkozcat from Claremont, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, February 23, 2005
This book looked interesting and it had a picture of a cat on the cover. Enough said!
I really enjoyed this book; I giggled all the way through - it is very funny and I'm not sure that I will be able to part with it just yet.
It is the story of two neighbours who bought houses in a remote part of Italy with the assurance of the estate agent that the owner of 'the other house' was very quiet and was only in residence for one month of the year.
Gerald is an English ghost writer for sporting heroes and Marta, a composer, is from somewhere which was previously part of the Soviet Union. It is mutual hate at first sight.
What happens in the book is the accounts of both Gerald and Marta describing the same happenings, each from their own point of view.
The back cover blurb:
>>>Cooking with Fernet Branca is a comic bad dream of modern Italy.
Gerald Samper lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. An effete and snobbish Enslishman working as a ghostwriter for celebrities, he would prefer to be remembered as a gourmet. His recipes include "Mussels in Chocolate", "Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream", and a dish containing puréed prunes, rhubarb and smoked cat (off the bone).
Reluictantly, Gerald shares his hillside with Marta. As far as he can see, she is a vulgar woman from a crime-ridden former Soviet republic. She is also a composer in the neo-folk style who is writing a score for a glamorous Italian film director - though Gerald can't believe it.
The mutual misunderstandings of these two exiles, each in search of a crowning success in the sunlight of Tuscany, get ever more dangerous. To the music of black helicopters and bad opera, and oiled by large quantities of the bitter aperitif Fernet Branca - all that either of them ever seems to have around the house - the lives of these two unlikely neighbours gradually and disastrously intertwine ... <<<
I must search out more books by James Hamilton-Paterson.
It is the story of two neighbours who bought houses in a remote part of Italy with the assurance of the estate agent that the owner of 'the other house' was very quiet and was only in residence for one month of the year.
Gerald is an English ghost writer for sporting heroes and Marta, a composer, is from somewhere which was previously part of the Soviet Union. It is mutual hate at first sight.
What happens in the book is the accounts of both Gerald and Marta describing the same happenings, each from their own point of view.
The back cover blurb:
>>>Cooking with Fernet Branca is a comic bad dream of modern Italy.
Gerald Samper lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. An effete and snobbish Enslishman working as a ghostwriter for celebrities, he would prefer to be remembered as a gourmet. His recipes include "Mussels in Chocolate", "Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream", and a dish containing puréed prunes, rhubarb and smoked cat (off the bone).
Reluictantly, Gerald shares his hillside with Marta. As far as he can see, she is a vulgar woman from a crime-ridden former Soviet republic. She is also a composer in the neo-folk style who is writing a score for a glamorous Italian film director - though Gerald can't believe it.
The mutual misunderstandings of these two exiles, each in search of a crowning success in the sunlight of Tuscany, get ever more dangerous. To the music of black helicopters and bad opera, and oiled by large quantities of the bitter aperitif Fernet Branca - all that either of them ever seems to have around the house - the lives of these two unlikely neighbours gradually and disastrously intertwine ... <<<
I must search out more books by James Hamilton-Paterson.
Journal Entry 3 by pinkozcat at Little Library in Claremont, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Released 2 yrs ago (3/23/2022 UTC) at Little Library in Claremont, Western Australia Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Little Library Corner St Quentin Avenue and Bovel Lane
