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My Two Italies
Joseph Luzzi
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Description for My Two Italies
Paperback. The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; HBJD; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time as a military internee in Nazi Germany - where he had a love affair with a local Bavarian woman - to his adventures amid the Renaissance splendour of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of Italy that leaps past facile cliches about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. ... Read more
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time as a military internee in Nazi Germany - where he had a love affair with a local Bavarian woman - to his adventures amid the Renaissance splendour of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of Italy that leaps past facile cliches about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780374535391
SKU
V9780374535391
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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