A Thousand Days in Venice (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of A Thousand Days in Venice Saturday, August 1 2009.

• He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,” as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena is overwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its rituals and customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens up its arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippi caviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takes the tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to a candlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she and Fernando, two disparate souls, build an extraordinary life of passion and possibility. Featuring Marlena’s own incredible recipes, A Thousand Days in Venice is the enchanting true story of a woman who opens her heart—and falls in love with both a man and a city.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Thousand Days in Venice Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Marlena De Blasi: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Thousand Days in Venice Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The small room is filled with German tourists, a few English, and a table or two of locals.

something witty approved Kevin’s request to change the title of A Thousand Days in Venice Monday, July 6 2009.

Kevin changed the title of A Thousand Days in Venice Monday, July 6 2009.