Nostalgia
A Fiction book. I decided to read a couple of little known novels set in Tuscany during my holiday there. Hands...
The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall. A man proudly out of step with modernity, Westfall is regarded by some as a maestro, but in Castelluccio - as in the wider art world - he has his enemies, and his niece - just arrived from England - is no great admirer either. And a local girl is missing, a disappearance that seems to implicate the artist. But the life and art of Gideon Westfall form just one strand of Nostalgia, a novel that teems with incidents and characters, from religious visionaries to folk heroes. Constantly shifting between the panoramic and the intimate, between the past and the present, Nostalgia is a fiction into which are woven the kaleidoscopic narratives of art, architecture, history, legend and much more.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 434 pages
- ISBN: 9781908745316 / 0
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The story captures the atmosphere and history of an Italian town. Relationship between the conceited artist and his niece is well drawn, although I questioned how she put up with his behaviour. Historical and artistic background did add to the story but at times dragged. A slow burn rather than a page turner. I decided to read a couple of little known novels set in Tuscany during my holiday there. Hands down winner of the two was the other one I read The Way Back to Florence. Nostalgia, on the other hand, was such a low key novel that at times reading it was a bit like watching a film with the sound turned down I could see what was happening... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Claire Yardley, who is recently divorced, visits Gideon Westfall, her late father's brother at his home in Italy. Gideon Westfall is a painter of some renown who has made his home in Italy but has not learnt to speak Italian so he relies on his assistant...
