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In this charming deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s two women form an intense and lasting friendship that embodies the paradoxes of Italian society
Inspired by her own adventurous unconventional life actress and writer Goliarda Sapienzas recently rediscovered novel takes the listener to the sundrenched town of Positano in southern Italy There while working on a film Goliarda encounters the captivating Erica a beautiful widow called Princess by the locals who has been the object of much speculation As the two women grow closer in spite of their different personalities they gradually reveal more about their thoughts feelings and experiences and the ghosts from their pasts that continue to hang over them
Writing the story of their transformative friendship thirty years later Goliarda offers a profound reflection on love in its many forms and opens a window onto an enchanting time and place that lingers in the mind And this unlikely bond forged between a leftist idealist and a traditional aristocrat acts as a microcosm of Italy illuminating its complex competing impulses
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