The Xenophobe's Guide to the Italians (Xenophobe's Guides) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Solly, Martin

 
9781902825359: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Italians (Xenophobe's Guides) [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 1902825357 ISBN 13: 9781902825359
Verlag: Oval Books, 1999

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Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
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Brought up in England, Martin Solly first became enamoured of Italy as a student, staying with his amici in a superb farmhouse complete with swimming pool. The red-earthed landscapes of Tuscany, Renaissance culture, Chianti and mouthwatering tortellini and zucchini convinced him that the Italians enjoyed the ultimate in sybaritic living.

After working on farms, and in bars, restaurants, bookstores and schools, he settled in Piedmont with the intention of improving his knowledge of things Italian.

He little realised this would include a beautiful Piedmontese girl, and ignoring the old Italian saying Moglie e buoi dei paesi tuoi (¿Choose your wife and your cattle from your own back-yard¿) he married her. They now live happily with their two Anglo-Italian daughters in Turin.

The author of a dozen books on English language and literature, Martin Solly teaches at Turin University, refusing even in the coldest weather to wear a vest. He does however, drive an Alfa-Romeo.

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'Italy's laws would be perfect without the Italians, who pay little attention to most of them. For example, although seatbelts are compulsory, few Italians actually wear them (in some parts of Italy there is even a roaring trade in T-shirts with seatbelts painted on them).
The Italians know that although other countries might be more powerful and better organized than Italy, in reality the people in the rest of the world behave the same way they do and are just as corrupt as they are, only sometimes they're smarter at not be caught.'
Xenophobia is an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable.
Xenophobe's Guides - an irreverent look at the beliefs and foibles of nations, almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia. (4 1/4 x 7, 64 pages)

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Verlag
Oval Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1902825357
ISBN 13 
9781902825359
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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