Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

How the much fantasized life in Italy can result in disillusion, bitterness, isolation. The author, an American relocated in a northern iialian city, depicts the Italian family life as a suffocating tangle of relationships; the Italian education system, as a humiliating experience where grades are public, and oral interrogations are held in front of the full class, the Italian landscape as grey and cold ... forget the beauty of Tuscany. This is the harshest world of the post-agricultural North, which has severed its roots from the past and is unsure where it is going.
The prose is vivid, the characters deftly described. I recommend this book to anybody who wants to understand life in Italy better. No Tuscan Sun here.… (meer)