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A carregar... Luigi's Freedom Ride (2014)por Alan Murray
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A wholly charming, sweetly funny story of one young good-hearted Italian man. It's about life, bicycles, the joy of the journey and the simple beauty of a life well-lived. It is the small lives, tucked away, that reveal humanity in all its bigness. A charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry gelato eaten in an Italian piazza on a summer's day. Luigi is a young Italian boy growing up in Tuscany in the 1920s, dreaming of cowboys and adventure, when a young Englishman, passing through on his way to Rome, gives him his first bicycle, thus sparking a lifelong passion. When World War II begins, Luigi enlists with the Bersaglieri, the Italian Army Cycling Corps (naturally), before unexpectedly finding himself fighting alongside the Partisans. Despite encountering great sorrow and tragedy, Luigi's zest for life remains undiminished, and his next adventure sees him cycling through the Holy Land, Turkey and Sri Lanka before finding an unexpected home - and an extraordinary surprise - in Australia. An irrepressibly optimistic, sweetly funny story, Luigi's Freedom Ride is about life, bicycles and the joy of the journey - showing how even a small life, lived in the shadow of great events, can be rich in contentment and spirit. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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After the Nazi occupation of Italy and their joyful lives deteriorated so did the book. They deserted during a raid by the Germans and escaped to join the partisans fighting in the hills. The story of their escapades and miraculous survival became very far-fetched . After the war when Leonardo decides to return to their village, Luigi decides to set off on his bicycle to go to Australia !!!!, and it became even more so. I really did not want to finish the book but curiosity got the better of me.
He sets off with his Jewish friend Jacob, who even more miraculously had survived the war end now wants to go to the Holy Land. Money and good fortune seems to fall into place everywhere they go and their trip is completely without setbacks. Jacob decides to stay in Israel but Luigi sets off on his own via ship To Sydney via Ceylon.
The only sadness he has is that his "first love" Nuncia whom he met in the partisans and who was captured by the Nazis cannot be found and appears to have been killed as no trace of her can be found, so he has resigned himself to a single life.
Life in Australia involves lots of cycling up the east coast of NSW and many helpful people along the way although he loses touch with his family at home and his friend Jacob due to his itinerant lifestyle. Then "lo and behold" as the pages of the book are rapidly running out and he has decided to book his passage back to Italy, he goes into to the city and stumbles upon a shop run by Jacob, who is now a very successful businessman. Jacob takes him home to meet his wife and family and then.....just when you think things are all too perfect, he finds out that they have found Nuncia, who did survive imprisonment and starvation and has also migrated to Australia with her father... I just can't go on....it's all too much from then on.
Happy endings are all very nice but this story was just too unbelievable to be enjoyable. ( )