This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and earthquake disasters. It was during this period that he came across the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele, perched high above the glittering Bay of Naples on Capri. With the help of Mastro Nicola and his three sons, and with only a charcoal sketch roughly drawn on a garden wall to guide them, Munthe devoted himself to rebuilding the house and chapel. Over five long summers they toiled under a sapphire-blue sky, their mad-cap project leading them to buried skeletons and ancient coins, and to hilarious encounters with a rich cast of vividly-drawn villagers. The Story of San Michele reverberates with the mesmerising hum of a long, hot...
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2012-02-25
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I slutet av boken väntade jag med att läsa, "sparade", kapitel då jag inte ville att den skulle ta slut. Författaren tillika huvudpersonen syntes vara en tämligen unik och speciell person, mångsidig och mångbottnad. Boken växlar mellan filosofisk och konkret, äventyr och vardag, verklighet och fiktion, tragik och humor. Allt finns där.
2010-06-23
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Underbar, bitvis magisk, nostalgisk, man får den "förlorad värld" känslan
