Italian Lessons

I am a real fan of Peter Pezzelli's. "Italian Lessons" takes the reader into the rural Italian culture, the food, the musical language,and love. It's a great "read", but ends all too quickly!

Surely this is Peter Pezzelli's crowning glory so far - with the possible exception of Every Sunday (although the writing was good and the approach interesting, I found the subject matter, ie the adultery humor, troublesome), I have thoroughly enjoyed every book (which I read in quick succession one after the other) Pezzelli has written so far, but this is surely his best yet. His characters are delightfully real and the reader cannot help but think that he or she knows someone just like that. The youthful and naive romace is captivating and the reader is tranported into the world of the determined lover. The unfolding drama of the brothers reunited by tragedy, at first a puzzle and then slowly unravelling as one is taken back to the country and the people the proffessor once left behind. There too the characters are fullly rounded and almost tangible in Pezzelli's descriptions. The cameo appearance of Pezzelli's first character, Pepi, did not go unnoticed either...and the end is simply charming...if at once you try and fail, try, try and try again...what a gem - I can hardly wait for the next one! Bravo! Benissimo!