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My Home Sweet Rome - Living (and Loving) in the Eternal City (Paperback)
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My Home Sweet Rome - Living (and Loving) in the Eternal City (Paperback)
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Loot Price R439
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It's a nice place to visit but would you really want to live there?
Sari Gilbert, who has lived for close to 40 years in what many have
called the Eternal City, answers with a resounding "yes"- but it's
a "yes... but." A native New Yorker who moved to Rome after
finishing graduate school and then became a journalist, Gilbert's
book "My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and Loving) in the Eternal City"
describes what life is really like in the Italian capital: to sum
it up, "fascinating, and delightful, but not at all easy." Many
foreigners have moved to Italy, but relatively few have decided to
stay on for the rest of their lives, unless they are married and
have put down family roots. Gilbert uses her own particular status
- as an attractive and single woman, as a journalist for major U.S.
and Italian news organs, and as an American - as a magnifying lens
to examine the various aspects of Italian and Roman life. She gives
us an unveiled view of the country's politics, its stifling
bureaucracy, its contradictory social customs, everyday concerns
and gastronomical habits. Gilbert also takes us through the less
pleasant phases of recent Italian history: Mafia, terrorism, the
assassination attempt on the life of the first (but not the last)
non-Italian Pope, the meteoric rise of Silvio Berlusconi. In the
process, we learn what it is like to work in Italy as both a
foreign correspondent and a local reporter for Italian newspapers.
Even more intriguing perhaps, Gilbert sheds light on what love
affairs are really like with Italian men, be they average Giuseppes
or high-placed movers and shakers.
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