num_pages: 243
description: He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando-"the stranger," as she calls him-and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met.
language: English
title: A Thousand Days in Venice : An Unexpected Romance
titlecomplete: A Thousand Days in Venice : An Unexpected Romance
genres: Biography, Italian Literature, Italy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Romance, Travel, Biography Memoir, Food and Drink, Food
ratings_count: 6759
places: Venice
series: Italian Memoirs
publisher: Virago Press