In the most stressful year, I put this book on the bed-in the Tuscan sunshine. I can almost recite the beginning of this paragraph, and I have touched the spine of the book. At that time, my reading had not been infringed by mobile phone reading. Before going to bed every night, I always read a book quietly for a long time, and then sleep sweetly and contentedly. I even found the movie version, and found that it was not as good as 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, decorated it, and then recorded in detail how to wait for the university teaching in the United States to have an early holiday in anxious hope, then fly for more than ten hours, then transfer for a few hours, and then return to Tuscany town after a 24-hour boat trip. How to decorate the house, how to collect old tableware in the antique market, how to buy furniture and decorate the room in the market; What a pleasant thing it is to renovate the courtyard, even taking you through her forest with hundreds of olive trees and going to the local oil mill to squeeze fragrant olive oil.
She also tells you how to buy fresh peaches and boil them to make jam, which fruit trees and grasses can be used for cooking in her garden, and how rich and special the seemingly dilapidated stone walls are. Old stone houses, Shan Ye full of haystacks, rolling green hills covered with vineyards, olive groves and sunflowers. Peach Blossom Spring by Italian Americans. In this way, Bama Sulu became a paradise for Mace. It has also become a paradise in my imagination.
My development friend Wang Yiming said a few years ago that he would go to Tuscany for a month every year. I kept sighing at that time. Although Mr. Wang is handsome, funny and thoughtful, he even built a Mediterranean villa community called Tuscany in Changsha. It was not until I read this little book and fell in love with Tuscany that I realized how self-righteous I used to be. 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 efforts to Tuscany in Changsha. How many things in the world seem to be related to money, but in the end they have nothing to do with it.
Maze's escape from the original life track in the United States is actually related to stress. Middle-aged widowed, overwhelmed by the pressure of work and life, life and spirit are very lonely, and Mace feels that he has lost his vitality. It is the simple life in Tuscany that makes her regain her enthusiasm for life, as well as her confidence and ability to love. In the cultivation and planting of nature, in the decoration of old houses, and in the care of local Italian food, her enthusiasm for life was awakened inch by inch. 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, she seems to hear the sound of time flowing and smell the flowers of the four seasons. More importantly, this is the inspiration 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. One week before Christmas, two olive pickers visited the olive oil factory everywhere. Finally, they sent olives to San Angelos and squeezed 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 actually makes me watch it tirelessly.
"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 in every room, and then go home along the dusty old road and fry eels with garlic and sage to give you food. Under the fig tree, two cats curled up, and we also felt it was very cool there. I counted the pigeons cooing 60 times a minute. The history of the Trullian stone wall on the roof of my house can be traced back to the 8th century BC. We can talk slowly. "
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 where olive trees were planted 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 Romans by Japanese writer Gu Ye Qisheng. Yano's 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 then returned to Italy at the age of 57. In 2000, they traveled in the history of Rome at the rate of one book a year 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 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?
During a holiday, although it was only less than ten days, I listened to this book and couldn't wait to go to Tuscany. In Florence, Chen Yan, the tour guide, told me that we were in the province of Grand Tuscany, which governs 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 vilen piled with hay, followed by olive groves and manors. I can only say that I'm sorry. I consoled myself that it was God who made me dream for many years.
In fact, in Tuscany, there are many houses that are more beautiful than Bama Suluo, because this is the real experience of Mace, which attracts countless people who get comfort from words and travels to Bama Suluo from all over the world, making more and more people live together. A new city has been formed. According to local people, Metz still lives in Tuscany. 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 her divorce walked into the church hand in hand with her. So far, the two are still happily waiting for each other, and they have fulfilled their half-life promise. This is really a beautiful fairy tale. (Text/Quiet Voice)
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