In August this year, Lisa Clifford was awarded the 2009 Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia.
The book, Death in the Mountains, describes a Tuscany the travel brochures don't know. It takes the reader into a time & place & a world almost forgotten now, even by Tuscans, but still vivid in the effects on each person who was formed by those times. Lisa sees with the clear-eyed love of an adopted Tuscan, & shares with us her warm appreciation for the harsh and beautiful world which lies so close behind the one we all see today.
I love this book & I am delighted that it has been properly recognised. Don't miss it.
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