Amazon.comIf you savored Joanne Harris"s Chocolat or Frances Mayes"s Under the Tuscan Sun, if you dream of honeymooning in San Gimignano or you"ve ever stood in a specialty foods store sighing over imported olive oil, you will fall hard forThe Miracles of Santo Fico. By turns sentimental, romantic, and mischievous, D.L. Smith"s debut novel is set in a small Italian hill town, like hundreds of others, that has been in decline for 60 years. Remote and dusty, with a dry fountain in its modest piazza, Santo Fico only attracts tourists when local boys change the road signs. But there is one hidden treasure in the grubby old church--a perfectly preserved fresco of St. Francis that looks strangely, miraculously like the work of Giotto--and when a black sheep named Leo Pizzolo tempts God by trying to profit from it, he must come up with a few miracles of his own to save the town. Expect picturesque charm, old wrongs made right, and a happy ending for all. --Regina Marler Book DescriptionWhen Leo Pizzola returns from America to Santo Fico-a tiny, forgotten village in Tuscany-he discovers more than the vineyard of his childhood has been left untended. There"s Marta, Leo"s first and only true love, who will barely speak to him now; Topo, his once trusting, but now leery, best friend; and Father Elio, the village"s pillar of faith who is experiencing a spiritual crisis all his own. When Leo and Topo are forced to orchestrate a series of man-made miracles-each more botched than the last-the end results are truly...miraculous. THE MIRACLES OF SANTO FICO pours forth with the stories of a village that is rediscovering the beauty of life itself and the nature and meaning of miracles. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Miracles of Santo Fico (D. L. Smith)