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Cargando... A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greecepor Emma Tennant
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In the early sixties, the authors parents happened to be on a cruise around the mediterranean island of Corfu, when they spotted a perfect bay. On a whim they decided there and then that this was the place that they wanted to live. Having bought the land, all 43 hectares of it, they set about building a beautiful house over looking the bay. Tennant tells of how the house was built, and her new family life split between the UK, and this peaceful idyllic place. As the UK went through dramatic social changes, Corfu still continued the unique social customs that had taken place for centuries, but slowly things were beginning to change in the island. She writes too about the local characters who worked for them and played a part in the family's life. There are no huge or traumatic events here, just a series of events and anecdotes of the life spent on Corfu. It is a nicely written account of this part of the world. charming and well-written. The house in Corfu was built by author's parents after spotting its bay while on a cruise. The house was built on the hillside and for the longest time there was no road to it. The book is the result of the author's many visits with her family. She writes of the beauty of Corfu and its people. This is the nineteenth book I've read this year that focused on travel. Still, I've not lost interest in this genre. What I liked best about this book was Tennant's descriptions of the water; I finally had to go to the net and see photos of the Ionian Sea. Wow. Exactly as Tennant described: a startling blue. Beautiful. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A delightful book in the tradition of Peter Mayle and Frances Mayes A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set in 42 hectares of land above the bay where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of the people who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove at the time of putting on the roof - Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband Thodoros - and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay. Full of colour and contrast, A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in island life since the time of the building of the house, and celebrates, equally, the joy of belonging to a timeless world; the world of vine, olive and sea. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Tennant pays tribute to other Corfu writers like Homer, Durrell, and Edward Lear.
While I enjoyed Tennant's romantic descriptions, her parenthetic comments and run-on sentences were tiring. ( )