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| Original Title: | Va' dove ti porta il cuore |
| ISBN: | 0385316577 (ISBN13: 9780385316576) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Susanna Tamaro
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.59 | 10270 Users | 791 Reviews
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An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, "Follow Your Heart" is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, "Follow Your Heart" won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe. Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all. And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.
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| Title | : | Follow Your Heart |
| Author | : | Susanna Tamaro |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1996 by Delta (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Romance. European Literature. Italian Literature. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.59 From 10270 Users | 791 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Follow Your Heart
Winter is approaching, and with it, an elderly woman's death. Everything is in order, except her affairs of the heart. She sits at her desk, composing the final chapter of her life-a confession-a letter to the granddaughter she raised. Now estranged and living in far-off America, in it is a story of love, death, and propriety, of words unspoken, of lives wasted, of secrets she had vowed to take to her grave but must now share to heal lives mortally wounded by a lie. It is the ultimate gift ofI absolutely love this book about life and death, about the ropes that tie family together. I can read it again and again, that's how much I love this book. really hits you hard so prepare to cry from the first page to the last.
This is one of those books that stays with you long after you finish reading it. It is hard to place it in a category since it deals with love, life, forgiveness, acceptance and understanding. The author conveys her messages through letters written from a grandmother to her cynical granddaughter. She tries to make her see that we are all threads linked together in a bigger picture, and the importance of listening to what is inside of you. She uses wonderful imagery and her observations may apply
This is one of those books that stays with you long after you finish reading it. It is hard to place it in a category since it deals with love, life, forgiveness, acceptance and understanding. The author conveys her messages through letters written from a grandmother to her cynical granddaughter. She tries to make her see that we are all threads linked together in a bigger picture, and the importance of listening to what is inside of you. She uses wonderful imagery and her observations may apply
This is the brutally honest letter a grandmother who is nearing death writes to the granddaughter she raised alone. Her granddaughter is obviously a headstrong young woman who has moved to America leaving her grandmother in Italy heartbroken and alone. The grandmother can feel death coming and wants to leave her granddaughter a letter of history and hope for the future. She pulls no punches. She is not afraid to illuminate her own shortcomings as well as those around her, granddaughter included.
The perfect antidote for recovering from the flu. I felt so absorbed by this Italian woman's reflection upon her life that I didn't feel as though I was wasting my time healing. It is her final gift for her granddaughter, the unsealing of secrets, the sharing of what is closest to her heart, and her acceptance of the time at hand. Part inspiration, her final letter is crafted with honesty, love, insight, and humility. It absorbed me as if I were sitting in her garden with a cup of coffee while
I was needing a book that make me feel closer to my mom in Heaven, and I found this book. My mother always said I should read this book, she said it was wonderful. A recomendation from her is something you better not miss.A long letter from a grandmother to her grandaughter. If you wish a long confession of how she feels in the nightfall of her life. Intimate, profound, with the feeling on the skin, anyone can feel related to it. I really like it. Of course, it made me cry in many parts,
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