Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way -

Kamin Mohammadi

Knopf

2018

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780385354011

Kamin Mohammadi, a magazine editor in London, should have been on top of the world. But after heartbreak and loneliness, the stress of her "dream life" was ruining her physical and mental health. Gifted a ticket to freedom--a redundancy package and the offer of a friend's apartment in Florence--Kamin took a giant leap. It did not take her long to notice how differently her new Italian neighbors approached life: enjoying themselves, taking their time to eat and drink, taking their lives at a deliberately slower pace. Filled with wonderful characters--from the local bartender/barista who becomes her love adviser, to the plumbers who fix her heating and teach her to make pasta al pomodoro--here is a mantra for savoring the beauty and color of every day that Italians have followed for generations, a guide to the slow life for busy people, a story of finding love (and self-love) in unlikely places, and an evocative account of a year living an Italian life.

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delicioso

A autora consegue nos transportar para Florença através de uma descrição tão minuciosa que é possível sentir os aromas, enxergar as cores, os detalhes da arquitetura e toda a vida da cidade. Por vezes me lembrei dos livros de Marlena de Blasi, há muitas semelhanças em suas histórias e até mesmo no estilo da narrativa. Talvez Kamin tenha se inspirado em Marlena. Fica também a sugestão de leitura dos livros igualmente fabulosos dessa autora.