Amandine, Marlena de Blasi
Amandine, Marlena de Blasi
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Amandine

Author: Marlena de Blasi

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 12 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/29/2010


Synopsis

Marlena de Blasi, best-selling memoirist of A Thousand Days in Venice, makes her remarkable fiction debut with this poignant tale. Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity, but as WWII engulfs Europe, her time to find answers may be running short.

About Marlena de Blasi

Marlena de Blasi has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant, and a restaurant critic. She is the author of A Thousand Days in Venice, Regional Foods of Northern Italy, and Regional Foods of Southern Italy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jackie

Amandine was a novel full of magical words in an unsettling time in Europe's history. The story centers around a baby left at a French convent with no trace left of her past. Raised as an orphan, she has to surpass a childhood full of trials all the while longing for the mother she never had the ch......more

Goodreads review by MA

„Amandine” oczarowała mnie swoim klimatem; nieco tajemniczym i mrocznym, pachnącym francuskim krajobrazem. Natomiast nie podobało mi się idealizowanie głównej bohaterki - tytułowej Amandine. Od początku do końca była dzieckiem idealnym, wyróżniała się życiową inteligencją, opanowaniem, altruizmem i......more

This was a sweet story with some interesting characters and a hapoy ending with room for a sequel.......more