Author: Peter Mayle
Translator: Ju-heon Kang
Publisher: Hyohyung
365 pages | 201*143mm
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About This Book
They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of
someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it
happened.
Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that
Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their
first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a
two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping
in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the
Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months
go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local
masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with his strategies for
survival. He relishes the growing camaraderie with his country neighbors
-- despite the rich, soupy, often impenetrable patois that threatens to
separate them. He makes friends with boar hunters and truffle hunters, a
man who eats foxes, and another who bites dentists; he discovers the
secrets of handicapping racing goats and of disarming vipers. And he
comes to dread the onslaught of tourists who disrupt his tranquility.
In this often hilarious, seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport
us into all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live
vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days. George Lang,
who was smitten, suggests: "Get a glass of marc, lean back in your most
comfortable chair, and spend a delicious year in Provence."
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