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Cooking with Fernet Branca
(2004)(The first book in the Gerald Samper series)
A novel by James Hamilton-Paterson
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman and ghostwriter for celebrities, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from the Soviet Republic. The neighbours' lives disastrously intertwine as the English obsession with Tuscany is satirized.
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
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