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I Give It To You
Valerie Martin
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Beschreibung
Jan Vidor seems like the ideal tenant for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive and quietly sociable, the American academic can be relied upon to entertain herself - but her aristocratic landlady Beatrice has made a terrible mistake.
A chance remark about a violent death at Villa Chiara during the war piques Jan's writerly interest and sends her digging into the Salviati family's tragic past. Was Beatrice's uncle Sandro really mistaken for a partisan, or was his killer someone closer to home? Does it matter if Jan just fills in the gaps? After all, Beatrice said she could do as she liked with the story, she even said 'I give it to you' . . .
Written with a deep understanding of loyalty and temptation, I Give It To You is a riveting novel about who owns a story, whether we have a right to what we inherit, and what a gift really means.
Rezensionen
Valerie Martin is a fleet-footed writer; you never quite know where she'
Valerie Martin has always been a consummate storyteller, but in her new novel she tackles the question of where do a writer's stories come from. And to whom does a story belong? The person it happened to or the one who tells it. In some ways all writers betray their subjects, and Valerie Martin digs into the heart of that betrayal. Reminiscent of Rachel Cusk'
<b>She always produces something unexpected and revelatory</b>
Yes, the narrator of Martin'
Exquisite
The story slips between past and present and is an interesting reversal of all the usual mellow Italian tropes. We may be Under The Tuscan Sun, but we'
<b>Martin writes with amplitude, precision, grace and wit</b>
Martin'
Immensely satisfying ... cleverly plotted and packed with great characters, both Jan'
An Italian villa and the family that owns it capture the imagination of an American writer in Martin's intimate, disquieting latest ... Martin's engrossing tale explores relationships among family members and workers over four generations ... Martin'
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italian holiday novel, elena ferrante, the flamethrowers, italy fascist partisan, italy second world war, milan fiction, tuscan holiday, wwii fiction, lake trasimeno, ann patchett commonwealth, novels about writers, stolen story