![]() ![]() ![]() The couple's main interest is to be able to return to their villa during Christmas break to celebrate the holidays. She pictures how the nonna would react to the renovations that Frances was doing to her home. Throughout the story, Frances imagines the villa's previous owner, possibly a kind old nonna. They encounter many problems along the way their Italian is poor and their contractors are lazy. ![]() While going through an extensive amount of paperwork to begin construction, they meet and befriend many people, including a group of Polish men and a local man who fixes their stone wall. As university professors, they did not have to work during the summer instead of teaching, they spent their summers renovating. The story details the trials that recently divorced Frances and her new significant other, Ed, had to go through to renovate their Tuscan property, an abandoned villa named Bramasole ("longing for the sun") in rural Cortona in Tuscany. As of 2016, Under the Tuscan Sun was translated into 54 languages. It includes several chapters of recipes, and describes how she bought and restored an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside. The book, published by Random House, was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 1997. It was adapted by director Audrey Wells for the 2003 film Under the Tuscan Sun. Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy is a 1996 memoir by American author Frances Mayes. The countryside of Tuscany, Italy, where the novel takes place. ![]()
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