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In a home for the elderly, in the suburbs of London, Stephen is waiting to die. His anxious ruminations on the past, and on a future that will go on without him after his death, are interrupted by the arrival of Elsha, once a famous poet, now a victim of Alzheimer's. But can he adapt to the change that she brings?
Meanwhile, Jason, an eighteen-year-old nu-metalhead, is arriving in a new country, Italy. Insecure, experience-hungry, and eager to experiment, he is running away from an unhappy home, carrying with him an onerous secret, and hoping to create a better life for himself.
Papr:kut is a novel about survival: how the past survives in us, and how we survive in the present.
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Love And War in the Apennines
by Eric Newby
When Italy made peace in the summer of '43, 50,000 Allied POWs, Eric Newby among them, walked away from their prison camps. But Italy was occupied by the Germans, and the camps were behind those lines. Newby went to the mountains where, with the help of locals, he evaded the retreating enemy.
Italian peasants sheltered him for more than three months. In this classic memoir of WW II, Newby recalls these selfless people, their unchanging lifestyle, the funny, bizarre and dangerous incidents, his hopes of the local girl who later became his wife. "An exciting story, superbly told." (Punch)
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A Small Place in Italy
by Eric Newby
Amazon reader's review: "I've read: Under the Tuscan Sun, Extra Virgin ..., An Italian Affair, In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany, Italian Neighbors and I'm on my way to start reading Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town. I started reading these types of books when I got lonely for Italy after visiting in November of 2001. I just finished A Small Place in Italy. Each of these books have something special in it that I enjoyed reading about. I really enjoyed reading about the person Attilio. Attilio came with the house when they purchased this house in Italy -- he had his own secret room. I enjoyed reading about how they hired their local tradesmen to renovate and repair this house. I hope I never run out of these types of books to read. I do plan to return to visit Italy, it would be a joy to visit some of these small towns."
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