The Dark Side of Love

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Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated, Apr 1, 2009 - Fiction - 900 pages
With Hyman and photographer Peter Cassidy as guides, you can travel the coast and interior mountain regions of this romantic and historic island from the comfort of your own armchair. Along the way you’ll meet the best bakers and cheesemakers, as well as producers of nuts, olives, lemons, and artichokes. You’ll learn the secrets of artisan pasta manufacturing and perfect espresso, sample the local wines and street food, enjoy the markets and fiestas, and encounter the passionate characters who are placing the island’s food at the top of every gourmet’s shopping list.

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About the author (2009)

Rafik Schami was born in Damascus in 1946, went to Germany in 1971 to study, and stayed on to become a leading German novelist and a pivotal figure in the European migrant literature movement. His novels have been translated into 22 languages and have received numerous international literary awards including the Hermann Hesse Prize. His translated works published by Interlink include Damascus Nights, The Calligrapher’s Secret, A Hand Full of Stars, Sophia, and The Dark Side of Love, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a 2010 Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal.

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