From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on how love and loss shape places and spaces, all through the lens of four Italian spaces.
Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her we see anew the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon and San Michele, the island of the dead; the Piazza di Spagna, the Tiber, the view from the Gianicolo; the pigeons at San Marco and the parrots in the Doria Pamphili.
Zarin’s attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice, Rome, Assisi and Santa Maria Maggiore vividly to life for the reader.
Publisher: Daunt Books
ISBN: 9781914198700
Number of pages: 104
A short travelogue set in Rome and Venice and beyond...
3.75*
What a delightful travelogue of lyrical observation. If you have been to either Venice or Rome (or, Assisi for that matter, also briefly included),...
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A small book but full of amazingness, reading it felt like a journey. It has a charming atmosphere, and definitely worth to re-read it, as it has such a timeless vibe - with vivid images, and a beautiful prose.
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