Books for Breakfast

Join Books for Breakfast, an authentic Italian book club that celebrates and promotes contemporary Italian authors and their novels!

Become a member and take the opportunity to read a new book every month and discuss it with your friends and us during an engaging and interactive virtual meeting.

Be ready to have fun asking questions, sharing your reading experience and, why not, challenging yourself writing a different ending to the story.

December Book: Va Dove ti Porta il Cuore 

Originally Published: 1994

Author: Susanna Tamaro

Adaptations: Follow Your Heart (1996)

Genres: Fiction, Epistolary Novel

Va Dove ti Porta il Cuore is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all. And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Va-dove-ti-porta-cuore/dp/B001C7BJ8M

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