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Cooking with Fernet Branca

(2004)
(The first book in the Gerald Samper series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2005 Wodehouse Prize (nominee)
2004 Booker Prize (longlist)

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

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