When she arrives at her husband's Peruvian estate in 1955, Lydia Sinclair, a young Englishwoman, finds herself caught up in the passion, violence, murder, and decay of his Beltran family heritage

The Long Way Home

St. Aubin de Terán, Lisa

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

A teenage girl and a thirty-five-year-old exiled South American man fall in love, are wed, and journey aimlessly across the Continent

Slow Train to Milan

United States

The author recounts a year she spent in San Orsela, a small town in the Umbrian hils of Italy, sharing portraits of her Italian friends and a celebration of the seasonal cycle

A Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria

Travel

Europe

Lisa St Aubin de Ter&#225;n's Swallowing Stones is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto - adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and the KGB. In the riveting and remarkable invented memoirs of the legendary seventy-year-old revolutionary scholar, the explosive history of twentieth-century Latin America unfolds before us - viewed through the sharp, unflinching eyes of a uniquely indomitable character as he progresses, through consequence and fateful accident, from philosophy student to guerrilla fighter, political activist, and outlaw.

Swallowing Stones: A Novel

Ecco

Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and her husband, painter Robbie Duff-Scott, discover they were the owners of a vast ruin lacking windowpanes, parts of the roof, and other essentials. A Valley in Italy recounts its restoration in the grand style of impossible house and the charms of bohemian family life. It also offers a rare portrait of the life of a. Italian village, where "all things are made to be as enjoyable as possible." " Lisa St Aubin de Teran's intuitive sense of place, her affection for the people around her, and her appreciation for native Italian grace make this a memorable book that can stand beside the best accounts of Italian life.

Valley in Italy, A

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harper-perennial

One of today's most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabriele del Campo, a young, idealistic stonemason's apprentice imprisoned for supporting Garibaldi's revolutionary unification of Italy. A poor peasant, he has falen in love at first sight with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella. He yearns to be pulled out of poverty, and dreams of winning Donatellaa's heart and building a palaceworthy of his love.
As del Campo languishes in prison, he takes the first steps toward his dream. His cellmate Colonel Giovanni Vitelli, a nobleman, educates him in the customs of the gentry; meanwhile, in his mind elaborate plans for the palace's construction are already taking shape. Twice escaping execution, del Campo emerges from prison to find wealth as a fearless gambler in the corrupt underworld of Venice. Winning a large estate in Castello at a sinister high-stakes gambling house, Gabriele begins to build the palace of his dreams. At last he might win Donna Donatella's love.

The Palace: A Novel

Keepers of the House

Penguin??Books

The Slow Train to Milan

The Tiger

St Aubin De Teran, L

Contemporary

Penguin

This is St Aubin de Teran's first novel. Originally published in 1982, it won the Somerset Maugham Award that year. Set in the Venezuelan Andes, the story tells of a English woman newly married to a sugar planter and of the people she meets in the valley. She has also written A Valley in Italy.

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

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The Long Way Home

Slow Train to Milan

A Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria

Swallowing Stones: A Novel

Valley in Italy, A

The Palace: A Novel

Keepers of the House

The Slow Train to Milan

The Tiger

Keepers of the House