Read: Three Slow, Summery Reads from the 20th Century
For Dreaming of: Sweltering, Southern European Summers of Years Past.
Books
'A Room with a View' by E. M. Forester (setting: Florence, 1908)
An Englishwoman finds romance in a Victorian-era hotel in Tuscany, and must choose between her relationship back home and the new spark.
Find it on Abebooks.
'Last Summer in the City' by Gianfranco Galligarich (setting: Rome, 1970s)
While centered on the couch-surfing musings of a Milanese thirty-something, the book is as much a celebration of the scenery of Rome in the quiet, dog days of summer.
Find it on: Thriftbooks.
'Three Summers' by Margerita Liberaki (setting: Athenian Countryside, early 1940s)
In the dawn of WWII, 3 sisters experience love and the vanquishing of childhood over 3 summers in conservative Greece.
Find it on: Abebooks.
Photo Source: Union Square, McMillian, NY Review
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