Un Amico Italiano, Luca Spaghetti
Un Amico Italiano, Luca Spaghetti
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Un Amico Italiano
Eat, Pray, Love in Rome

Author: Luca Spaghetti, Antony Shugaar

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/26/2011


Synopsis

"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert

When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no idea how his life was about to change. She embraced his Roman ebullience, and Luca in turn became her guardian angel, determined that his city would help Liz out of her funk.

Filled with colorful anecdotes about food, language, soccer, daily life in Rome, and Luca's own fish-out-of-water moments as a visitor to the United States-and culminating with the episodes in Liz's bestselling memoir, told from Luca's side of the table-Un Amico Italiano is a book that no fan of Eat, Pray, Love will want to miss.

About The Author

Luca Spaghetti was born and lives in Rome. He loves Roman cooking, American music, and the Lazio soccer team. This is his first book. Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator. Among his recent translations is Sandokan by Nanni Balestrini, for which he was awarded a 2007 NEA translation fellowship.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Santhi on November 23, 2015

Many reasons to enjoy this fun read (author's passion and delight is so infectious with each line, sharing relevant chapters with children who wanted more of this book) Most of all, I am glad I have read this before Gilbert's famous book.......more

Goodreads review by Trisha on May 13, 2022

I thought this book was blah when I first started reading and it became more interesting in the second half when he went to America. Lots of good information pertaining to history. Luca seems like a great guy. I am rewatching the movie and think the casting was a bit off lol. It’s an ok read......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on November 13, 2017

A cute story that not only made me crave pasta but a trip to Italy.......more

Goodreads review by Yu on September 13, 2011

This book is funny, I like a casual way to write books, don't say it is too commercial, that's some relax air what we should breathe in modern times. When I read "I 'd like to know if there is someone named Franz Kartoffeln in Germany, or a John Hamburger in America, a Nikos Souvlaki in Greece, or B......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on October 04, 2011

Luca Spaghetti, an Italian man Elisabeth Gilbert meets in Eat, Pray, Love, provides his take on Italy and his friendship with Elisabeth. I cannot claim I read the whole book, but I gave it a very good skim and my assessment is a firm "eh". I didn't find anything particularly interesting about him or......more