In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meetbeginning a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a privileged Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where hisMoreIn the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meetbeginning a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes.
Cesare is a privileged Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his family has lived for five hundred years- Beth, an ambitious American dreamer born to hippies and raised on a commune. The events of September 11 serve as a catalyst for the unfolding of their story, in which passion struggles against the inexorable force of patria.The novel of the American in Europe has a long and lustrous pedigree.
L’America adds to this lineage, an evocative portrait of the intersection between Europe and America, the old and the new, and the dizzying, life-changing power of first love.