The narrator Luca is beautifully complex, while at the same time sharing feelings, concerns, fears that all of us have felt.
She displays an easy going relationship with the rich, apartness of the world in which she lives - wealthy, white, elite who live through contacts and good works rather than earning a wage through dead end jobs like "normal" people.
This book serves to open a window into that rarefied atmosphere and yet demonstrates that they experience the highs and lows of a normal life just as much as the rest of us. More than that, they too have to deal with death and fears, not only physical but mental, making the book both fascinating and believable at every turn.
She displays an easy going relationship with the rich, apartness of the world in which she lives - wealthy, white, elite who live through contacts and good works rather than earning a wage through dead end jobs like "normal" people.
This book serves to open a window into that rarefied atmosphere and yet demonstrates that they experience the highs and lows of a normal life just as much as the rest of us. More than that, they too have to deal with death and fears, not only physical but mental, making the book both fascinating and believable at every turn.