Author: JULIA BLACKBURN
Title: Thin Paths
Description: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Hardcover. Pp: 251. "In 1994, while walking the Alta Via, the high path winding from the French border to the Bay of Lerici, a man stopped in a remote village, and found he couldn t forget it. I ve just bought a ruin in the mountains of Liguria, he wrote, some years later. You d like it here. Julia Blackburn married that man and moved to that house in 1999. What she found in the mountains was a new way of life, and one that is fast disappearing. The village is one of many settlements in the valley- a heart at the centre of an intricate geometry of veins and arteries paths and tracks criss-crossing the land. Perched 'like a beetle' on the hillside, she begins exploring these connections- up into the mountains and into the corners of her new home. From first meetings with her neighbours Nella the post mistress, Giovanin the shepherd, Nanda the shopkeeper, her sister Adriana and husband Arturo a picture of the village takes shape. The stories told begin to connect the myriad fragments of the region to form a whole- stories of customs and traditions, leaders and outcasts, love affairs and tragedies. Of how many villagers lived as mezzadri, half-people, in an archaic feudal system until the 19. ISBN: 9780224090681. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780224090681
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Title: Thin Paths
Description: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Hardcover. Pp: 251. "In 1994, while walking the Alta Via, the high path winding from the French border to the Bay of Lerici, a man stopped in a remote village, and found he couldn t forget it. I ve just bought a ruin in the mountains of Liguria, he wrote, some years later. You d like it here. Julia Blackburn married that man and moved to that house in 1999. What she found in the mountains was a new way of life, and one that is fast disappearing. The village is one of many settlements in the valley- a heart at the centre of an intricate geometry of veins and arteries paths and tracks criss-crossing the land. Perched 'like a beetle' on the hillside, she begins exploring these connections- up into the mountains and into the corners of her new home. From first meetings with her neighbours Nella the post mistress, Giovanin the shepherd, Nanda the shopkeeper, her sister Adriana and husband Arturo a picture of the village takes shape. The stories told begin to connect the myriad fragments of the region to form a whole- stories of customs and traditions, leaders and outcasts, love affairs and tragedies. Of how many villagers lived as mezzadri, half-people, in an archaic feudal system until the 19. ISBN: 9780224090681. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780224090681
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- Book number: 2073839
- Book number: 2073839
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