ASIN: B01A2PSNZG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 188
The cold bone-white Duomo late at night and a cappuccino at the Pasticceria Cova, the operas of Puccini at La Scala, the fog in the fall and the uneven steps of an apartment in Brera—these are the things that desultory young lawyer Giovanni Covelli has always known. He is restless; he leads a colorless and empty life in the city of Milan, where he lives—until he meets Ada, the beautiful and dissolute daughter of a British foreign correspondent, who is aimlessly wandering the Italian peninsula.Ada is fond of appellations and drinking abricotine. She would like to find a city where she will not be bored; she is tired of the Sicilian lemon groves and pervasive, cloying savor of Catholicism. With Giovanni Covelli, in the gray streets of Milan that smell like cigarettes and dying leaves, she believes that she has found the thing that will save her. Their vainglorious love affair will take ...
