{"product_id":"cooking-with-fernet-branca","title":"Cooking With Fernet Branca","description":"\u003cp\u003eSee More At: Http:\/\/Faber.Co.Uk\/Catalog\/Cookingwi...Gerald Samper, An Effete Englishman, Lives On A Hilltop In Tuscany. He Is A Ghostwriter For Celebrities, And A Foodie, Whose Weird Tastes Include 'Mussels In Chocolate And Garlic' And 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His Idyll Is Shattered By The Arrival Of Marta, A Vulgar Woman From A Former Soviet Republic Now Run By Gangsters, Notably Male Members Of Her Family. She Is A Composer In A Neofolk Style Who Claims To Be Writing A Score For A Trendy Italian Film Director. The Neighbours' Lives Disastrously Intertwine. The Entourages Of The Rock Star And The Director Come And Go; Mysterious Black Helicopters Bring News Of Mayhem In Voynova, Marta'S Homeland; And Along The Way The English Obsession With Tuscany Is Satirized Mercilessly. A Playful Book, Full Of Fun And Games. There Is So Much Pleasure To Be Had From Hamiltonpaterson'S Delight In Language And Wicked Way With Unreliable Narrators. . . . The Book'S Effect Is Achieved Almost Entirely Through The Comic Magnetism Of A Single Character.The Times Literary Supplement A Skillful, Highly Original Writer. . . . The Elegant Language, Witty Asides And Vivid Observations Are Memorable.The Literary Review I'M Bowled Over By The Sheer Imaginative Brilliance Of The Man.Barry Humphries I Love His Elegant And Intensely Evocative Style: Strangeness Lifts Off His Pages Like A Rare Perfume.J.G. Ballard A Work Of Comic Genius.The Independent A Wonderfully Rich Alloy Of Subwildean Witticisms And Nonsense, Cooking With Fernet Branca Had Me Laughing Out Loud And Uproariously.Ian Thomson, Sunday Telegraph Gerald Samper, An Effete English Snob, Has His Own Private Hilltop In Tuscany, Where He Wiles Away His Time Working As A Ghostwriter For Celebrities And Inventing Wholly Original Culinary Concoctionsincluding Ice Cream Made With Garlic And The Bitter, Herbbased Liqueur Of The Book'S Title. Gerald'S Idyll Is Shattered By The Arrival Of Marta, On The Run From A Crimeriddled Former Soviet Republic. A Series Of Hilarious Misunderstandings Brings This Odd Couple Into Ever Closer And More Disastrous Proximity. James Hamiltonpaterson'S First Novel, Gerontius, Won The Whitbread Award. He Is An Acclaimed Author Of Nonfiction Books, Including Seventenths, Three Miles Down, And Playing With Water. He Currently Lives In Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47088659562741,"sku":"SONG0571220916","price":12.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/9122gY6FodL.jpg?v=1759405662","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/cooking-with-fernet-branca","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}