You love Italy? And you love riveting, intriguing stories? Then this collection of Italian stories by Mario Adorf, Germany’s most well-known and beloved actors, is a true gift for you. For no one writes quite as enchantingly as he does about this crazy country, about Roman crooks and carabinieri, about Mafioso film bosses and double-dealing photographers, about life in small Italian beach towns or in the elegant Tuscan metropolis of Florence. Are you familiar from your travel guide with the famous photograph of the collapse of the Campanile in Venice in 1902? Let Adorf tell you what’s off about this photo. Want to learn out about the most surefire crimes from the king of Italian thieves? Or how to take a surprisingly affordable vacation to Capri, or how to lure the Pope to a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea to boost business? For 40 years, Mario Adorf has been living in his adopted homeland, Italy. He knows the country’s colors and smells, its lovable and less lovable citizens, and, in 16 stories, presents this very personal Italy to his readers. Experience the country in a way you definitely haven’t before, with the actor Mario Adorf in the role of masterful storyteller.
