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The Seamstress of Sardinia: A Novel

door Bianca Pitzorno

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A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth centuryâ??a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.

In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hemsâ??and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her.

Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge in all their vitality, vanity, and fragilityâ??flawed yet congenial people who are not quite what they pretend to be. There is the Marchesa Esther, who rides horses and studies mechanics and ancient Greek; Miss Lily Rose, a spirited American journalist who commissions a special corsetâ??with pockets to hide more than just her flaws; the Provera sisters with their expensive Parisian fashions that belie their financial hardships; and Assuntina, the wild child. There are men, young, old, and in between; love affairs and broken hearts; and even a murder (or was it suicide?). And at the center, watching and waiting is the seamstress herself, an intelligent, ambitious girl with a tender heart and her own impossible dream.

An irresistible literary confection rich in atmosphere and period detail and packed with compelling characters. The Seamstress of Sardinia transports us to a long-ago world not so removed from our ownâ??to a society rigidly divided by wealth and shaped by passion, hope, ambition, and loveâ??the elemental forces that drive… (meer)

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I thought this novel was a delightful trip to another place and time. I’m always pleased when I get to enjoy books translated into English because I feel that broadens my cultural literacy. It’s always shocking to read about how hard people can work for so little return - it makes me grateful to be a well fed American.
  KaterinaBead | Jan 5, 2023 |
I liked this story but had a hard time rating this. This was a gift for Christmas from one of my sons and I voluntarily chose to rate it. I've given it a 4.5* rating. Parts of this story read slowly but it had a lot of feels to it. Part of this is it hit somewhat close to home, as my mother lost her first fiance at Pearl Harbor in WWII. Anyway, it was all tied up at the end. It read like a memoire, only this is fiction. ( )
  NancyLuebke | Dec 29, 2022 |
La Pitzorno è un' amatissima autrice per ragazzi, che coi suoi libri ha appassionato generazioni di giovani lettori; da alcuni anni però si cimenta anche in opere più mature, come questo romanzo, in cui tuttavia resta un'ingenuità di fondo che lo pone in una sorta di limbo fra l'infanzia e l'età adulta.
Lo definirei un libro per bambini cresciuti, che con toni delicati ed uno stile garbato ci porta per mano in un' Italia perduta ed un po' fiabesca, fatta di aneddoti improbabili e personaggi eccentrici che cattureranno la nostra attenzione fin da subito; purtroppo però andando avanti l'impostazione cambia e brillantezza ed ironia lasciano il posto ad atmosfere sentimentali e melodrammatiche, che stonano con quanto letto fino a quel momento. L'epilogo poi è frettoloso e raffazzonato, succede più in quelle poche pagine che in tutto il resto del romanzo.
Peccato perchè le premesse erano ottime, ma stando così le cose è un' occasione mancata, un libro riuscito solo per metà. ( )
  Lilirose_ | Sep 12, 2019 |
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della signora Angelina Valle Vallebella, nostra padrona di casa per l’estate e unica sarta di Stintino, che aveva una bellissima macchina a pedali e cuciva con la porta aperta sorvegliando la piazza, anzi il “Largo” Cala d’Oliva, e che bucava le orecchie alle bambine del paese con un ago arroventato e un turacciolo di sughero. Mi pettinava tutte le mattine facendomi le trecce nel suo fresco cortile pieno di ortensie fiorite;

e della signora Ermenegilda Gargioni, la donna più intelligente e creativa che abbia mai conosciuto e che è mancata al nostro amore due anni fa, la quale anche dopo essere diventata cieca, fino a novantasette anni ha continuato a cucire con la sua macchina a pedali;

e di Giuseppina “Pescefritto”, di cui non ricordo il cognome, che nell’immediato dopoguerra veniva a cucire a giornata da noi, e che ci ha rivoltato tanti cappotti, e fatto a me tanti grembiulini con le nervature davanti e con le alette, e ai miei fratelli tanti pagliaccetti di picché con le bretelle, e quando avevo cinque anni mi ha insegnato i primi punti e mi ha spiegato con pazienza i rudimenti del cucito, compreso l’uso della macchina da cucire a manovella;

e di mia nonna Peppina Sisto, che mi ha insegnato a ricamare in bianco e a colori, e che quando mi vedeva usare l’ago senza mettermi il ditale (come ho sempre fatto e faccio), si lamentava con mia madre pronosticando che sarei diventata una donna ingovernabile;

e di tutte le sartine odierne del Terzo Mondo che cuciono per noi gli stracci alla moda che paghiamo pochi euro nei grandi magazzini di abbigliamento a basso costo – ciascuna sempre lo stesso pezzo tagliato da altri, come alla catena di montaggio –, per quattordici ore, con i pannoloni per non perdere tempo ad andare in bagno, e che dopo aver ricevuto una paga da fame muoiono bruciate nelle loro enormi fabbriche-carcere. Cucire è un’attività creativa e bellissima, ma non così, NON COSÌ.
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth centuryâ??a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.

In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hemsâ??and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her.

Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge in all their vitality, vanity, and fragilityâ??flawed yet congenial people who are not quite what they pretend to be. There is the Marchesa Esther, who rides horses and studies mechanics and ancient Greek; Miss Lily Rose, a spirited American journalist who commissions a special corsetâ??with pockets to hide more than just her flaws; the Provera sisters with their expensive Parisian fashions that belie their financial hardships; and Assuntina, the wild child. There are men, young, old, and in between; love affairs and broken hearts; and even a murder (or was it suicide?). And at the center, watching and waiting is the seamstress herself, an intelligent, ambitious girl with a tender heart and her own impossible dream.

An irresistible literary confection rich in atmosphere and period detail and packed with compelling characters. The Seamstress of Sardinia transports us to a long-ago world not so removed from our ownâ??to a society rigidly divided by wealth and shaped by passion, hope, ambition, and loveâ??the elemental forces that drive

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