Across the Bridge of Sighs: More Venetian Stories - Travel Guide & Historical Fiction for Italy Lovers | Perfect for Book Clubs & Venice Travel Planning" （注：原中文标题为《叹息桥彼岸：更多威尼斯故事》，已按要求翻译为英文并优化，增加了使用场景部分）
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From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the architect restoring the ancient palazzo of her husband’s family. An ambitious gallery owner sells a young artist’s work faster than he can paint it. A salesman finds a way to trip up a narcissistic race car driver who seems to be able to get away with anything. As her characters negotiate the conflict between tradition and a rapidly changing city, Jane Turner Rylands draws us deep into a society all but unknown to outsiders.
Customer Reviews
I've never been to Venice, and I'm not sure I want to. The tour guides would take me to historical sites, Churches with famous paintings, shops full of junk made in China, and perhaps a ride down the Grand Canal. But what Ms. Rylands does is to give her readers a glimpse of the real Venice or at least the one you would like to think really exist.Her stories bring to life real people and problems of a city under constant change. They make you laugh and at the same time sad for a culture that is slipping away, some would say already gone. The question her book has provoked is: How to visit Venice and not be a tourist! Please Ms. Rylands answer that question! I await your next book with the answer.
