In the most stressful year, I put this book on the bed-in the Tuscan sunshine. At the beginning of this paragraph, I can almost recite it, and I have touched the spine of the book. At that time, my reading had not been violated by mobile phone reading. Before going to bed every night, I always read a book quietly for a long time, and then go to sleep sweetly and contentedly. I even found the movie version and found that it was far less beautiful than the book.
A book is actually an autobiography. Francis, a teacher at San Francisco State University who lives on the west coast? While traveling in Italy, Mace fell in love with an old house in Bama Russell that has been vacant for 30 years and faces the Apennine Valley. After extremely difficult negotiations, I bought the house, renovated it, and then recorded in detail how to wait for the early vacation of American universities in anxious hope, then fly for more than ten hours, then transfer for a few hours, and then take a 24-hour boat back to Tuscany town. How to decorate the house, how to collect old tableware in the antique market, how to buy furniture in the market to decorate the room; Renovating the courtyard, even taking you through the forest where she planted hundreds of olive trees, and going to the local oil mill to squeeze fragrant olive oil, is a pleasant thing.
She also took pains to tell you how to buy fresh peaches and cook them to make jam, what fruit trees and grass can be used for cooking in her garden, and how rich and special the seemingly broken stone walls are. Old stone houses, Shan Ye full of haystacks, and endless green hills covered with vineyards, olive groves and sunflowers. The Peach Blossom Spring by an American in Italy. In this way, Bama Sulu became a paradise for Mace. It has also become a paradise in my imagination.
My developer friend Wang Yiming said a few years ago that he would go to Tuscany for a month every year. At that time, I always lamented. Although Mr. Wang is handsome, funny and thoughtful, he even built a Mediterranean-style villa community in Changsha called Tuscany. I didn't know how self-righteous I was until I read this little book and fell in love with Tuscany. A thin book can bring so much happiness and relieve years of depression and stress, so I can understand why Wang Yiming devoted all his energy to Tuscany. How many things in the world seem to be related to money, but in the end they have nothing to do with it.
Mace's escape from the original life track in the United States is actually related to stress. Widowed in middle age, unable to bear the pressure of work and life, and lonely in life and spirit, Mace felt that he had lost his vitality. It is Tuscany's simple life that makes her regain her enthusiasm for life, as well as her confidence and ability to love. Her passion for life was awakened inch by inch in the cultivation of nature, the decoration of old houses and the care of local Italian food. So that I finally woke up and found a soul mate that many people can't find all their lives.
Just like Thoreau in Walden Lake, savoring the traces of time, feeling the peace of mind and the tolerance of the earth. Between her lines, it seems that she can hear the sound of time flowing and smell the flowers of the four seasons. What's more important is the enlightenment from Metz: life can start from any link, as long as you return to food and nature.
As a gourmet, the part of "green olive oil" is the most impressive. In the week before Christmas, two olive pickers visited olive oil factories everywhere, and finally sent olives to San Angelos to squeeze out green, delicate and pure olive oil. Mace likes cooking. Italian food is world-famous, and Metz took pains to record many food recipes. The main course, side dishes and desserts are all listed in detail, and even the menu is attached, which makes me tireless and enjoy it.
"Sitting by the fireplace, eating thick buttered toast and drinking newly brewed Qiyandi wine. I'll take you to Abed, enjoy the portraits of the Renaissance Virgin hanging from room to room, and then go home along the dusty old road and fry eels with garlic and sage for you. Under the fig tree, two cats curled up, and we also felt it was cool there. I counted the pigeons cooing sixty times a minute. The history of Truglia stone wall on the roof of my house can be traced back to the eighth century BC. We can talk slowly. "
There is plenty of time.
Tuscany is not only the cradle of Etruscan civilization, but also the cradle of dazzling Florence and Pisa. More importantly, many famous masters such as Machiavelli, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Giotto were born in Sri Lanka's hometown ... The hillside covered with olive trees and the rose path described in medieval poems look like the characters in Raphael's paintings crossing the square.
By the way, this book will be more interesting if it is interspersed with the story of the Roman writer Tanino Kaisheng. Yano seven students are another atypical example of liking Italy. Seven students of Yano studied in Italy for two years at the age of 26, fell in love with Rome at first sight and returned to Italy at the age of 57. Since 2000, they have traveled through Roman history at the rate of one book a year, which lasted 15 years and wrote more than a dozen books about Roman stories. Of course, The Tale of the Romans is more academic, while Under the Tuscan Sun is more prosaic. If you compare the two, you will see the shining history and culture behind Italy, which will give you a deeper understanding of the small town of Metz. Just imagining the events and years that Shan Ye experienced behind this house is enough to keep you in a daze for half a day.
How far is this simple life from you?
A holiday, although only less than ten days, but I listened to the book, can't wait to go to Tuscany. In Florence, Chen Yan, the tour guide, told me that we were in the Greater Tuscany province which governed Florence. Because I am traveling with a group, the time is not easy to arrange, so I can't stay in Russell, Bama, where I want to go. But you can detour through town. I can only see a village and a small town passing by in the distance on the Yuan Ye piled with hay, followed by olive groves and manors. I can only say it's a pity. I comforted myself that God had made me dream for many years.
In fact, in Tuscany, there are many houses more beautiful than Bama Sulo, because this is the real experience of Metz, attracting countless people who get comfort from the words, and traveling to Bama Sulo from all over the world, so that more and more people can live together. A new town has been formed. According to local people, Mace still lives in Tuscany, and she is an old lady in her early 60s. Since 1990, she has been traveling between the United States and Italy for more than 20 years. Tuscany recorded her youth, and the young Italian male traveling companion who walked with Metz after divorce walked into the church hand in hand with her. So far, the two are still waiting for each other happily, realizing the promise of half-life. This is really a beautiful fairy tale. (Text/Quiet Voice)