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	1	Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De A Valley in Italy Harper Perennial April 28, 1995 0-06-092619-8 / 9780060926199 Paperback Near Fine A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In 1989, novelist St. Aubin de Teran (Slow Train to Milan, LJ 3/15/84) and her family began to restore their "dream house," the dilapidated ruins of a villa near the small village of San Orsola in the Umbrian Valley of Italy. This book chronicles their first year of impossibly hard work amid the pleasantries of rich harvests and continuous celebrations. Orginally from England, St. Aubin de Teran gives the reader vivid impressions of Italian life, social customs, bureaucracy, and culture, presenting a setting where food and wine are the daily religion. Her book conveys a strong sense of place, with lush descriptions of the gardens, countryside, weather, and the family's active social life. The year culminated with a habitable villa; a full larder, including walnut liqueur and medicinal herbs; a New Year's Eve dance at the villa; a wedding; and a new baby. Price: 450.00 JPY
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	2	Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De Elements of Italy Welcome Rain Publishers May 25, 2002 1-56649-242-4 / 9781566492423 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Fine A crisp clean first edition (as stated) not ex-lib no markings throughout: Featuring writings by: Dante Alighieri, Edith Wharton, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Dickens, Mary McCarthy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Primo Levi, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Truman Capote, John Keats, and many more . . . The romance of Italy has for centuries inspired all who have been drawn to her shores. Lord Byron loved here and continues to lure others in his wake; Keats, knowing his days were numbered, came to Rome to die by the Spanish Steps; Stendhal concluded that the charm of Italy "is akin to that of being in love;" and Browning said, "Open up my heart and you will see graved inside of it, ‘Italy.'" Lisa St. Aubin de Terán's love affair with Italy began when she was only eight years old and first read Byron's letters. In this outstanding anthology, she conveys the essence of her adopted country by dividing it into the four classical elements of earth, fire, air and water. St. Aubin de Terán deftly presents the writings of a stunning variety of writers, a heavenly chorus of Italy's most ardent admirers. Price: 1000.00 JPY
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	3	Teran, Lisa St Aubin de Southpaw Little, Brown Book Group June 1, 1999 1-86049-532-X / 9781860495328 Paperback Good 'The collection contains some of St Aubin de Teran's most satisfying work t o date ... An absorbing storyteller, St Aubin finds other people's life sto ries even more enchanted than her own' INDEPENDENT 'Her vivid, telling sket ches of characters in a remote Umbrian village linger in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES 'A jubilant sense of place pervades the stories, together with the s mell of woodsmoke, acacia blossom and the day's baking' SUNDAY TRIBUNE 'Lis a St Aubin de Teran never seems to run out of material from her extraordina rily exotic life... as with all de Teran's books the language she uses is b eautiful and evocative.' DAILY MAIL 'This collection is funny, inspiring an d sad. The way in which St Aubin de Teran focuses on the weaknesses of her characters with such barely disguised glee, and yet describes them with suc h tenderness and charm, is little short of masterly.' BIRMINGHAM POST 'magi c realism with the emphasis on realism from an exoticist who can describe a nd imagine.' GLASGOW HERALD Price: 400.00 JPY
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	4	Teran, Lisa St. Aubin de The Hacienda: A Memoir Back Bay Books May 3, 1999 0-316-81688-4 / 9780316816885 Paperback Very Good A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: A child bride leaves England for a life of unimaginable cruelty, isolation, and beauty in this memoir that reads like the most magical of novels. Married at the age of 17, Lisa St. Aubin de Terán hardly knows her Venezuelan husband Jaime--and learns Spanish only to find that he seldom speaks in that language, either. Nonetheless, he persuades her to return with him to his hacienda, a sugar-cane and avocado plantation perched high in the Andean foothills. Here, her romantic notions of South American life soon wash away in the constant drizzle; the hacienda lies in near-ruins, and her husband's relatives treat her like a pariah--and a half-witted one at that. Jaime disappears for days, then weeks at a time, leaving her without food or money in a leaky, tin-roofed shack, surrounded by peasants who make the sign against the evil eye at her approach. In the years to come, St. Aubin de Terán finds inner reserves of strength she didn't know she possessed, learning to run the hacienda, earning the respect of la gente, bearing a daughter, and, most importantly, discovering the pleasures and consolations of writing. Meanwhile, her husband descends into unpredictable fits of violence and rage, and as his madness escalates, the increasingly ill and weak St. Aubin de Terán must find a way to smuggle herself and her daughter out of the country before he murders them both. Without resorting to either sentiment or self-pity, St. Aubin de Terán has created a loving portrait of a place and people that seem lifted from another century entirely. Price: 450.00 JPY
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	5	Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De The Palace: A Novel Harper Perennial May 3, 2000 0-06-095653-4 / 9780060956530 Paperback Very Good+ The author of the acclaimed memoir The Hacienda returns to the Italy of a p revious novel, where she once again explores a friendship between unlikely men, an aristocratic colonel and a stonemason. The two are chained together in prison, awaiting execution for supporting Garibaldi, when fate interven es to free them. The stonemason, having learned much from his mentor, assum es the identity of a murdered aristocrat, Gabriele del Campo, and travels t o Venice, where he wins an enormous fortune at cards. Throughout his impris onment and afterward, Gabriele is sustained by his idealized love for a wom an he met in his youth and the palace he imagines building for her. As the fantasy palace becomes a reality, St. Aubin de Ter n creates an atmospheric fable in which dreams come true, fortified by genuine friendship and love. Price: 450.00 JPY
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