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You know it's a good book when you don't want to go to work on monday morning as you would rather stay in bed reading!
The Shoemanker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani is a slow burner. Starts off very gently but is starting to pick up pace and I really don't want to put it down. So beautifully written - you fall in love with the main characters so quickly.
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.
Unbeknownst to one another, they both build fledgling lives in America, Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job in Hoboken until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza, determined to forge a life without him, begins her impressive career as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House that will sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso.
From the stately mansions of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the perilous cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed lovers meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever.
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4 comments:
I loved that book.
We read this book a few months ago for one of my reading groups - Very good and it stimulated some pretty good discussion :)
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Haven't heard of this one before. hope you enjoy it!
I'm reading The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window x
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