The concept is great. I can see why Paterniti got wrapped up in this adventure and why it took so long to finish the book. The biggest issue I had which the author acknowledges somewhat is the direction the book takes. There is so much rich history that preceded the events he's written about that...
Foodies and fans of travel literature do not want to miss this book. It’s a tale of cheese made by hand in a Spanish village. As you will read you will be there in Spain, in “the telling room” listening to the stories told by Ambrosio while eating chorizo, cheese and drinking copious quantities o...
Before the glass front doors were drawn back, reflecting nothing—no face, no figure—and the low, reassuring, underwater sound of voices, students at lunch or in choir or suiting up for gym, was met by the voice of something else, something pitiless and blank. Before Patrick Ireland, a real boy, w...