by Andrea Lee
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The Italian phrase Mai due senza tre–“never two without three”–forms the basis of Andrea Lee’s spellbinding novel of betrayal. Sophisticated and richly told, Lost Hearts in Italy reveals a trio caught in the grip of desire, deception, and remorse.
When Mira Ward, an American, relocates to Rome with her husband, Nick, she looks forward to a time of exploration and awakening. Young, beautiful, and in love, Mira is on the verge of a writing career, and giddy with the prospect of living abroad.
On the trip over, Mira meets Zenin, an older Italian billionaire, who intrigues Mira with his coolness and worldly mystique. A few weeks later, feeling idle and adrift in her new life, Mira agrees to a seemingly innocent lunch with Zenin and is soon catapulted into an intense affair, which moves beyond her control more quickly than she intends. Her job as a travel writer allows clandestine trysts and opulent getaways with Zenin to Paris, Monte Carlo, London, and Venice, and over the next few years, now the mother of a baby daughter, she struggles between resisting and relenting to this man who has such a hold on her. As her marriage erodes, so too does Mira’s sense of self, until she no longer resembles the free spirit she was on her arrival in the
on her arrival in the Eternal City.
Years later, Mira and Nick, now divorced and remarried to others, look back in an attempt to understand their history, while a detached Zenin assesses his own life and his role in the unlikely love triangle. Each recounts the past, aided by those witness to their failure and fallout.
An elegant, raw, and emotionally charged read, Lost Hearts in Italy is a classic coming-of-age story in which cultures collide, innocence dissolves, and those we know most intimately remain foreign to us.
From the Hardcover edition.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 horrible, 2008-07-30
I want my $23.95 back. This is the first time I've ever felt this way. The author should shut off her computer and never write again. I read this book and would think after each chapter maybe it will get better. I'm throwing the book in the trash where it belongs.
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 I Finished It..., 2008-06-12
The biggest accomplishment that I can say with this book is that I did read it cover to cover. The author has some great descriptive language, but as other reviewers have said, she does not develop her characters well enough. Usually when I read a book, I am engrossed, taking on the character myself. This did not happen with this book. I found myself skimming over some pages and when I tried to go back, I realized I did not miss much.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Wasn't that great..., 2007-12-28
Definetly couldn't get into this book. I actually don't recommend it to anyone. It's slow to kick off. There is some talking dialog but you don't know when it starts. It's all just sentences with hardly any punctuation.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Not good at all, 2007-03-11
I got this book because I love reading interracial stories. This one was really bad. I do not suggest that anyone read it. I did not get the back and forth of the flash backs. The confussed black lead Mira seem to need help actually. Well, it was a waste of time and the only reason I finished it was do to the fact I can't stand not finishing a book I started. DON'T READ!
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
 Lost Souls in Italy, 2007-01-16
I picked Lost Hearts in Italy for my book group's monthly selection based on a newspaper review. Unfortunately, the central premise --- that a bright, newly wed young American woman with a terrific husband would sacrifice her marriage and spend years in an affair with a repulsive old Italian --- was implausible. The theme of innocent Americans abroad being seduced by a corrupt European society is a common one in literature from Henry James to Tennessee Williams - but in this book it was unconvincing. What the author DID capture --- wonderfully --- was the cynicism and
deay of contemporary Roman society, which I have felt there without knowing what I was feeling: as if the residue from ancient centuries of cruelty, torture, political corruption, slavery, sexual depravity and all the rest has remained in the molecules of the air. But all of in the group found the central plot point in Lost Hearts to be ridiculous, with no apparent motivation for either of the two main characters and their affair. I wouldn't recommend this book to a friend, and I won't keep it in my library.
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