The Seamstress of Sardinia A Novel【電子書籍】[ Bianca Pitzorno ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth centuryーa dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman’s remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hemsーand in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through the watchful young seamstress’s eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge in all their vitality, vanity, and fragilityーflawed yet congenial people who are not quite what they pretend to be. There is the Marchesa Esther, who rides horses and studies mechanics and ancient Greek; Miss Lily Rose, a spirited American．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る