Finding Rome on the Map of Love Ms Estelle Jobson 9782839910958 Books
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Estelle has an admirable career in publishing and a hectic, yet rich life. When her Italian diplomat boyfriend gets posted to Rome, she throws it all up to accompany him. There, she reinvents herself as Signora Stella, a casalinga (housewife) on the city’s highest hill, Monte Mario. Starting in autumn, she muses on life amongst the Italians and cycles through the seasons and sentiments of the Italian psyche. Signora Stella commences and ends at the same place Follie, the local hairdresser run by Salvatore, a gay Neapolitan. This book captures a year’s worth of quirky, humorous, vivid observations about life amongst the Italians.
Finding Rome on the Map of Love Ms Estelle Jobson 9782839910958 Books
It was a snow day in New Canaan, Connecticut, when my youngest sister first left home at age nine. She carried a teddy bear and wore a lightweight jacket as she headed off to Fairty's Orchard in a justified fit of pique. Another sister was unbearably irksome and as the oldest in the family it fell to me to arbitrate - in the absence of our parents - and to persuade her that this understandable bid for freedom was premature. Trudging after her through the snow laden field, I promised she could leave home the next day. I would help her plan it better. Food, for example, would be good. The following day, it would probably not be snowing...Estelle left home many times over the years, although she waited until she'd graduated and had launched a career in publishing. She travelled to Holland, Switzerland, New York (sending harrowing accounts of the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11), Iran and Australia. Entirely without any assistance from me, let it be said, she went around the world, exquisitely turned out as the photo record of her travels would attest.
The highlights of her journeys were the written accounts she'd send, initially a pale blue onionskin letter in an airmailed envelope, but later via email. Estelle showed the world she'd seen from a different angle in sparkling missives, replete with flamboyant observations, hilarious conversations overheard, and spicy accounts of weird encounters with the locals. Estelle always told her story from a bold and bizarre perspective.
The last time Estelle got itchy feet was in 2008, when she left her home, then Johannesburg, to follow her Italian diplomat partner to Rome. Soon enough the first email arrived. On 28 October Estelle wrote to her family and a handful of friends:
"I've been exploring our neighbourhood, Monte Mario, which is turning out to be very user-friendly - lots of shops and services within walking distance, and plenty of friendly neighbourhood characters, including busy bodies and an eccentric lady who wears a furry blue hat, many of whom congregate a coffee bar right downstairs at Bar Claudia. The agents who sold us the flat are a very helpful, highly odd and entertaining pair (big, strapping Umberto and small, plump Beppino, both in their seventies) and I can pop in and ask them for any assistance at all, be it to loan a drill or to get the verdict on whether cycling about town would be a good idea. (No, it wouldn't.)"
She promised to write again, a "more beautifully composed email when am not in an internet cafe with a TV broadcasting theatrical episodes of childbirth!"
And then they came, every few weeks, beautifully composed emails detailing the remarkable journey Estelle had undertaken. Every email was another jewel that inevitably made me laugh till tears formed. Soon enough the suggestion was made to put them in a book. In fact, everybody who received Estelle's emails kept repeating the plea to make them into a collection. This has finally happened and Finding Rome on the Map of Love now exists as an exquisite paperback with an arresting turquoise cover. It has also arrived punctually as an e-book.
Earlier this year my intrepid sister got tired of waiting for a publisher to wake up to her remarkable MS and so, she stepped out on her own once again. Never shy to undertake a challenge, Estelle applied her 15 years experience in the publishing industry to embark on the journey of self-publishing. With gorgeous book design, layout and cover design by Nicoletta Forni, this entirely lovely book is worth reading. Estelle is now marketing and distributing Finding Rome on the Map of Love via her Facebook page and dispatching gift-wrapped copies from her new place in Geneva. This would make a perfect Christmas gift to any with a yen for travelling to Rome. Make that anybody with a yen for travel because while the focus is Rome, it is as much about being a stranger in a foreign country and the resourcefulness that is required to learn a language, understand the customs and become familiar with the ways of any new place.
Finding Rome on the Map of Love is an utterly enchanting and fabulously funny journey outwardly, into the city of Rome, but inwardly, Estelle bravely squares up her options in love and life. Her sharp eye investigates the real and the imagined and her inimitable voice always rings true.
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Finding Rome on the Map of Love Ms Estelle Jobson 9782839910958 Books Reviews
'Finding Rome on the Map of Love' is the start of a wild love affair. You will adore this book; Estelle and her quirks will delight you, you'll fall passionately in lust with the Eternal City and its people and be sad when it's over. You will laugh a lot and fall in love with the greengrocer, the Metrosexual's Mama, the gay hairdressers, the dapper estate agents, and your coffee glands will salivate at the thought of un buon caffé round the corner from her. You'll learn a lot of Italian, mouth the words and smile at your efforts. What's more, you will wonder and even think - morality, right and wrong, values, worth. If ever a book coruscated, it's this. Estelle's writing skills will astonish you and you will ask, "Where has this writer been and why have I not heard of her?" You'll want to go to Monte Mario, live there and paint your front door blue. Optional extras will be a pink Vespa and a bicycle. Ever experienced a coup d'état of your imagination by all things Italian and Roman? And I've said nothing of the food. At the end there will be a large Finding Rome-shaped hole which you will try vainly to fill - don't bother, only one book will do the trick. What more do you want of a book? Just buy it. Any author this good deserves that. Lindsay Reyburn, South Africa
Just sipped and day dreamed my way through a lovely second reading. So many ways to see and savor my love of a sensuous life with Estell's liquid prose as tour guide. Bravo. More, please!
Estelle's writing is witty and frank, with a tongue-in-cheek critique of a country that she has come to love, Italy. She writes from the perspective of a fiery young woman from Cape Town, the most southern tip of South Africa. Her views of both Italy and South Africa are intriguing, especially when seen from the cultural stance of yet another country, the United States of America.
~Mariana Hewson, PhD
Estelle Jobson is a very talented writer with a wonderful ear for the nuance and absurdity of language, and for the cross-culturally bizarre. Her astute and witty observations strike more than a note of hilarity. They are often intensely profound, and sum up in a phrase, what lesser writers struggle to convey, far more clumsily. The book bristles with Signora Stella's intelligence and engagement with her new life in Rome. Further, Jobson cleverly alternates between a canny cynicism and a naive suspension of disbelief, making for compelling reading and a marvellously entertaining and stimulating meander though the haunts of Monte Mario, and so much more...The book also boasts an extensive glossary that is bound to satisfy even the most pedantic of linguists.
I've been encouraging Estelle to publish her thoughts on life in Italy from the point of view of a highly involved outsider for some time, and am extremely glad to see that she's at last permitting a wider audience to enjoy her highly amusing insights into the peculiarities, complexities, delights, inanities and hilarities of Life in Rome. It's all very light-hearted; it's all very amusing; and yet it is also a keen and insightful view of a rich and fascinating way of life, told with the skill of someone who not only has the understanding to see what is going on in the many and varied facets of Life in Rome, but who has the ability to express it in light and delightful prose that never fails to amuse. May many readers fall under the spell of Signora Stella's views on Life in the Eternal City!
Prof. Alex Potter, Department of English, University of Johannesburg (retired), editor
I really enjoyed this book. The author is from South Africa and moved to Rome with her Italian boyfriend. At the time of the book she is in her late 30s and has lived in a few other countries. She writes about a year in Rome in a series of stories that take you through her story and her observations of life around her. Interesting, informative and well written. I thought I was through reading these "I moved to Italy and ..." books, but this one was a delight to read.
It was a snow day in New Canaan, Connecticut, when my youngest sister first left home at age nine. She carried a teddy bear and wore a lightweight jacket as she headed off to Fairty's Orchard in a justified fit of pique. Another sister was unbearably irksome and as the oldest in the family it fell to me to arbitrate - in the absence of our parents - and to persuade her that this understandable bid for freedom was premature. Trudging after her through the snow laden field, I promised she could leave home the next day. I would help her plan it better. Food, for example, would be good. The following day, it would probably not be snowing...
Estelle left home many times over the years, although she waited until she'd graduated and had launched a career in publishing. She travelled to Holland, Switzerland, New York (sending harrowing accounts of the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11), Iran and Australia. Entirely without any assistance from me, let it be said, she went around the world, exquisitely turned out as the photo record of her travels would attest.
The highlights of her journeys were the written accounts she'd send, initially a pale blue onionskin letter in an airmailed envelope, but later via email. Estelle showed the world she'd seen from a different angle in sparkling missives, replete with flamboyant observations, hilarious conversations overheard, and spicy accounts of weird encounters with the locals. Estelle always told her story from a bold and bizarre perspective.
The last time Estelle got itchy feet was in 2008, when she left her home, then Johannesburg, to follow her Italian diplomat partner to Rome. Soon enough the first email arrived. On 28 October Estelle wrote to her family and a handful of friends
"I've been exploring our neighbourhood, Monte Mario, which is turning out to be very user-friendly - lots of shops and services within walking distance, and plenty of friendly neighbourhood characters, including busy bodies and an eccentric lady who wears a furry blue hat, many of whom congregate a coffee bar right downstairs at Bar Claudia. The agents who sold us the flat are a very helpful, highly odd and entertaining pair (big, strapping Umberto and small, plump Beppino, both in their seventies) and I can pop in and ask them for any assistance at all, be it to loan a drill or to get the verdict on whether cycling about town would be a good idea. (No, it wouldn't.)"
She promised to write again, a "more beautifully composed email when am not in an internet cafe with a TV broadcasting theatrical episodes of childbirth!"
And then they came, every few weeks, beautifully composed emails detailing the remarkable journey Estelle had undertaken. Every email was another jewel that inevitably made me laugh till tears formed. Soon enough the suggestion was made to put them in a book. In fact, everybody who received Estelle's emails kept repeating the plea to make them into a collection. This has finally happened and Finding Rome on the Map of Love now exists as an exquisite paperback with an arresting turquoise cover. It has also arrived punctually as an e-book.
Earlier this year my intrepid sister got tired of waiting for a publisher to wake up to her remarkable MS and so, she stepped out on her own once again. Never shy to undertake a challenge, Estelle applied her 15 years experience in the publishing industry to embark on the journey of self-publishing. With gorgeous book design, layout and cover design by Nicoletta Forni, this entirely lovely book is worth reading. Estelle is now marketing and distributing Finding Rome on the Map of Love via her Facebook page and dispatching gift-wrapped copies from her new place in Geneva. This would make a perfect Christmas gift to any with a yen for travelling to Rome. Make that anybody with a yen for travel because while the focus is Rome, it is as much about being a stranger in a foreign country and the resourcefulness that is required to learn a language, understand the customs and become familiar with the ways of any new place.
Finding Rome on the Map of Love is an utterly enchanting and fabulously funny journey outwardly, into the city of Rome, but inwardly, Estelle bravely squares up her options in love and life. Her sharp eye investigates the real and the imagined and her inimitable voice always rings true.
This review first appeared on my Books LIVE blog
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