The City and the House Christopher Lloyd French and Portuguese

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The City and the House Christopher Lloyd French and PortugueseFrom the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, an epistolary novel full of humanity, passion, and keen perception. Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must say goodbye to his cousin Roberta; to his former lover Lucrezia and her husband Piero; and to all his friends who used to gather for weekends at Le Margherite, Lucrezia's