All' Acqua

By Hansueli Schlunegger

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0972057404
• ISBN13: 9780972057400
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: BrownBooks
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great read

I've known the author only for his culinary talents and organizational ability. Therefore, it was quite a surprise when he announced the publication of his novel, All' Acqua. I bought several books for family and friends. Skeptical at first, naturally, I began quickly to appreciate the author's writing style, and his ability of keeping the novel interesting and fluent. From the start, I fell in love with the story's main characters: Herman Schuller, the young Swiss Army corporal, and Angelina Bianci, the fashion model from Milan. But I was not prepared for the last dozen or so pages, which took me by surprise, totally - the best writing comes at the very end. And what an ending it is....

All' Acqua, by Hansueli Schlunegger

As a manager at the Author's place of business, I was quite fascinated about getting his new novel, All' Acqua, and I obtained a copy the moment it hit the market. I was not disappointed! Having once started, I just couldn't put it down, always wondering what was going to happen to the young corporal on the next page. Along comes an extraordinarily beautiful and gifted fashion model from Milan, who, stirred by the memory of her parents' deaths, is finding herself on the wrong side of the law. But all seems well when the corporal, like a seraph sent from a fairytale, appears at her side and is taking charge of her destiny. Throughout the story it is difficult to predict the outcome that "unfolds in sleepy Alpine villages, in the brilliant salons of Milan's high fashion, on cliff-sides, and in candlelit mountain cabins," as one endorser put it. The story juggles divine love with some realistic brutality, a way of life so common in Europe during the 1950, after WW2. This novel is well worth reading, and ought to be made into a movie.