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A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut--a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare's comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy--at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination.This is a story born from love--a forbidden love--between Davido, an Ebreo tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl....But it's not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido's grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari's villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter's virginity and his neighbor's land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to chang

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Author

Schell, Adam

Publisher

Random House Digital, Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385343336

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.74 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14