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Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village

Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village


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In 1994, while walking the Alta Via, the high path winding from the French border to the Bay of Lerici, a man stopped in a remote village, and found he couldn t forget it. I ve just bought a ruin in the mountains of Liguria, he wrote, some years later. You d like it here. Julia Blackburn married that man and moved to that house in 1999. What she found in the mountains was a new way of life, and one that is fast disappearing. The village is one of many settlements in the valley- a heart at the centre of an intricate geometry of veins and arteries paths and tracks criss-crossing the land. Perched 'like a beetle' on the hillside, she begins exploring these connections- up into the mountains and into the corners of her new home. From first meetings with her neighbours Nella the post mistress, Giovanin the shepherd, Nanda the shopkeeper, her sister Adriana and husband Arturo a picture of the village takes shape. The stories told begin to connect the myriad fragments of the region to form a whole- stories of customs and traditions, leaders and outcasts, love affairs and tragedies. Of how many villagers lived as mezzadri, half-people, in an archaic feudal system until the 19

About the Author :
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which is due to be broadcast in 2011.

Review :
No Italian-themed book of this season conjures up a place so scrupulously. And none can match Blackburn's in its sympathy with every human traveller through the "vast landscape" of time. Blackburn brings her special gift for the art of place to this lyrical account of the Italian mountain village where she and her husband settled. Although she writes superbly about landscape and wildlife, it's her neighbours, and their haunting tales, who make the book sting. My book of the year. Beautiful, beguiling, memorable. Impossible to forget...beautiful and deeply humane. Reading Julia Blackburn's account of her life in a remote corner of the Ligurian mountains is like lifting a stone to find a strange, intricate, hidden world...prose that is ruthlessly unsentimental, but full of love. A beautiful and unusual exploration of a strange landscape and forgotten lives in a remote Italian region that captivated us all.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224090681
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 546 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0224090682
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
  • Width: 170 mm


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