The award-winning author of Keepers of the House describes her teenage marriage to a South American aristocrat twenty years her senior, her disillusionment, and her struggle to find the strength to bu
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 a
In nineteenth-century Venice, a young stonemason's apprentice, Gabriele del Campo, falls in love with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella, and dreams of winning her heart and building he
A septuagenarian former confidant to such figures as Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende looks back on his life of guerrilla fighting, political activism, and working against the KGB and CIA, a personal
