Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration -- a festival.
Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, author Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses in sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.
- ISBN10 0312423268
- ISBN13 9780312423261
- Publish Date July 2004 (first published May 1966)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format Paperback
- Pages 138
- Language English