The Rose Café: Love And War In Corsica (2008)

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A long-after the fact memoir of the author's youthful summer in Ile Rousse, Corsica, spent washing dishes and observing the regulars at the Rose Cafe. This is an pleasant but insubstantial sketch of an early-1960's Corsica, where every local man has some post-WW II snakes in his head. The author rarely inserts himself far into his own narrative and never leaves the area around Ile Rousse, so the strength of his story rests on the colorful local characters. This is unfortunate, since neither the lives of the workers at the Rose Cafe nor the mystery surrounding the local dandy, "Le Baron" are deeply engaging.Nevertheless, this was an enjoyable portrait of a dusky era when young sexpots from the mainland and aging, boules-playing Corsican resistance fighters came together for the common cause of eating delicious local foods.

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