pickThis lovely novella, is as a Time magazine review claimed, near perfect.
The writing is clear and precise and oh so gorgeous. It feels like every word has been selected with so much care, and so much is said with so little. As an English woman and an Italian man fall in love in Italy, I was seduced by the beautiful language.
I‘m so glad the the main character from King‘s ‘Writers and lovers‘ ,who loved this book, put it on my radar. Loved it!
KarenUK #popsummer20 #dreamsummerdestination 4y
Cinfhen Lovely review 4y
Flaneurette Hadn‘t heard of this one, stacked! 4y
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BarbaraBB I stacked it for the same reason you did, now I will buy it! 4y
KarenUK @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @Flaneurette I think Shirley Hazzard may be an newly discovered gem for me. I hadn‘t heard of her, and now have lots of backlist to try.... (edited) 4y
CarolynM Shirley Hazzard is one of those writers I've heard about for a long time (she was an Australian expat) but never read. I'm stacking this one. I think I have a copy of the tagged book somewhere![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Transit of Venus 4y
Transit of Venus
