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The Ice-Cream Makers
The Ice-Cream Makers | Ernest Van der Kwast
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A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for generations, people have specialised in making ice cream. Giuseppe Talamini claims it was actually invented here. Every spring his family sets off for the ice-cream parlour in Rotterdam, returning to the mountains only in winter. Eldest son Giovanni Talamini decides to break with this tradition by pursuing a literary career. But then one day his younger brother Luca approaches him with a highly unusual request. Now Giovanni faces a dilemma: serve the familys interests one last time or choose his own path in life, once and for all.
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#croatianedition📚#fraktura#gelati🍦🍦🍦#readingchallange2019🏵 🗣 finished🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️-gotovo🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️

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Felso
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I‘m so glad I finally finished this book. I really wanted like it ...but meh. It wasn‘t the magnificent family saga it was supposed to be. Just made me hungry for ice cream.

Eggs 😊😊😍 6y
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Felso
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Starting this tonight while frying fish and chips. 😋

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Felso
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Enjoyed a nice trip to the library this rainy day.

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Bookish.Leftist.Auntie
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Got these beauties this morning! Gorgeous covers 🖤🖤 Thanks @Liberty !
The tall elephant is also new, got that from my niece for my birthday on the 6th.

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BethFishReads
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Story of family, love, following one's passions, doing what's expected, brothers, & marriage. Oh and a lot about ice cream. I liked story, but didn't love it. I had a good feel for the characters & enjoyed the parts about the ice cream. On the other hand the plot wandered a bit (some parts were told in flashback), & I didn't buy everything that happened. Narrator Jacques Roy is credited w/ keeping me from bailing. He set the mood well

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BethFishReads
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Family, Italy, and fabulous ice cream flavors. Sounds like my kind of book. @SimonSchuster (37INK, an imprint of Atria)

DebinHawaii Ooh, sounds like my kind of book too! 🍦🍨📚👍 7y
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