Book description
A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century—a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.
In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman’s…
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Seamstress in Sardinia combines sewing and Italian women’s history in a way that fully captured my interest. The novel takes place in the late 1800s and early 1900s and revolves around a seamstress who relates the story of her life. Through her reminiscences, the reader gains an understanding of the strict parameters that governed women’s lives in that time and place.
Each chapter is a mini story of a different woman’s life as seen through the eyes of the seamstress as she tells her own story. The novel is based in historical fact. Modern readers may find it hard…
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