{"product_id":"cooking-with-fernet-branca","title":"Cooking with Fernet Branca","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCooking with Fernet Branca\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJames Hamilton-Paterson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781933372013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eEuropa Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFifth Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every 'wish-you-were-here' travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerald Samper is all about the good life. On his own private hilltop in idyllic Tuscany, he is living his own brand of la bella vita working as a ghostwriter for celebrities. He wiles away his free time concocting outrageous dishes with the distinctive liqueur gifted to the area's new arrivals. But it's not long before his little slice of paradise is shattered by the arrival of an eccentric neighbor. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarta is a composer on the run from 'Voynovia, ' a crime-riddled Eastern European nation to which she owes her distinctive accent. With her nocturnal helicopter visits and habitual piano-playing, it's not long before the two clash and become embroiled in an absurd turf war. The battle compels each side to devise increasingly strange retaliations: a back-and-forth which features such delicacies as Gerald's batch of Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream and Marta's parody of her neighbor's terrible singing for a film score she's composing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith each ridiculous misunderstanding, the two are brought into ever closer and ever more disastrous proximity. In their earnest attempts to narrate their side of the story it quickly becomes apparent how unreliable they both really are. An adroit, charming and bitingly funny comedy of manners for anyone who finds humor in the idiosyncrasies of human behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Cooking with Fernet Branca | James Hamilton-Paterson | Paperback | 9781933372013 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1781335","offer_id":49948618621080,"sku":"1781335","price":11.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81cKECrxEiL.jpg?v=1789796738","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/cooking-with-fernet-branca","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}