Casa Rossa
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375726373 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Casa Rossa, Roman native Francesca Marciano tells a riveting tale of three generations of women whose separate acts of betrayal set the stage for later destruction. Isabella and Alina, Alba's daughters, take extreme measures to keep each other out of their lives, leading to upheaval. It's a fine, highly entertaining work, laced with lovely writing and emotionally resonant characters. Alba, her daughter, takes a lover and pushes her husband to suicide. Renée, the grandmother, forsakes her artist husband and her life in rural Puglia at Casa Rossa, to live with a woman. Spanning the 20th century and providing entrée into the not-so-incompatible worlds of Italian cinema and political terrorism, Marciano, author of Rules of the Wild, reveals an authent
"Artful, real and eloquently told story about being the younger sister" according to SWS1Artful, real and eloquently told story about being the younger sister This book is fluid and readable and yet complex in how the story reveals itself one thread at a time---not always in sequence. Marciano is an extremely intelligent and insightful writer who is a master at building tension and subtext into a scene and at revealing the dimensions of human psychology. It is a universal story about sisters and how deeply that b. 8. This book is fluid and readable and yet complex in how the story reveals itself one thread at a time---not always in sequence. Marciano is an extremely intelligent and insightful writer who is a master at building tension and subtext into a scene and at revealing the dimensions of human psychology. It is a universal story about sisters and how deeply that b. A Customer said gripping saga, powerful women, beautiful Puglia. I loved Rules of the Wild, with its witty and incisive look at European expatriates in East Africa but I was totally unprepared for Casa Rossa. It is a very ambitious book. A gripping saga of a southern Italian family, it spans gripping saga, powerful women, beautiful Puglia I loved Rules of the Wild, with its witty and incisive look at European expatriates in East Africa but I was totally unprepared for Casa Rossa. It is a very ambitious book. A gripping saga of a southern Italian family, it spans 3 generations, and would be a great book just for the ride, Paris in the '20, giddy Rome in the'50s (cinecitta, paparazzis), Italy . generations, and would be a great book just for the ride, Paris in the '"gripping saga, powerful women, beautiful Puglia" according to A Customer. I loved Rules of the Wild, with its witty and incisive look at European expatriates in East Africa but I was totally unprepared for Casa Rossa. It is a very ambitious book. A gripping saga of a southern Italian family, it spans gripping saga, powerful women, beautiful Puglia I loved Rules of the Wild, with its witty and incisive look at European expatriates in East Africa but I was totally unprepared for Casa Rossa. It is a very ambitious book. A gripping saga of a southern Italian family, it spans 3 generations, and would be a great book just for the ride, Paris in the '20, giddy Rome in the'50s (cinecitta, paparazzis), Italy . generations, and would be a great book just for the ride, Paris in the '20, giddy Rome in the'50s (cinecitta, paparazzis), Italy . 0, giddy Rome in the'50s (cinecitta, paparazzis), Italy . Compelling and insightful Francesca Marciano has the verbal equivalent of a master sculptor's chisel for creating believable characters. In "Casa Rossa" she not only tells a compelling tale about three generations of a southern Italian family, she gives many wonderful insights into daily life in Italy today and in the early 20th century. I particularly liked her spin on the tarantel
Finally Isabella, Alina’s sister, whose fervent politics drove her to ever-escalating betrayals. There’s grandmother Renee, whose love of novelty won over everything else. Alina’s mother, Alba, whose marriage to a screenwriter inspired both great art and unbearable sadness. Moving from Jazz Age Paris to 1950s Rome to modern-day New York, but returning always to the uncompromising beauty of Italy’s south, Casa Rossa is a spellbinding story of how loves and losses, secrets and lies, resonate across the generations.. Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harbors—in particular of three women whose passions indelibly shaped her family’s dark past. A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Strada’s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it