And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set ofCleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow.
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I actually love this book. And this one is the first one I read without clear visuals, I mean this one hasn't been a movie yet right and how I wish it will be. I've known this because of Emma. Yup, she posted it on instagram and yeah what the hell why don't I try and read it, then bam, I'm so thankful I did cos as I've said I loved it. It was quite a complicated one and misleading at first but maybe that's because the author doesn't want us to figure out things yet in the first few chapters of the book. And as far as I've remember the author said that he wrote this one for 15 years. Yup, I think its pretty crazy but maybe he really does. And this one is quite realistic but I don't know. It's not like I've been alive during the Cleopatra times. Hahahaha! Ciao!
Love,
Dan
