by Ferenc Máté · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432209291
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«La sabiduría de la Toscana» is Ferenc Máté's essay on Tuscan culture, published by Seix Barral in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Ferenc Máté has lived in Tuscany for over twenty years and explains here how its inhabitants have perfected a culture of simplicity, beauty and friendship. With personal and amusing anecdotes he explores orchards, cooking, family businesses and community, and presents this way of life as a path to stability and happiness.
First edition published in 2011 in the Biblioteca Abierta collection, translated by Beatriz Iglesias Lamas; the original English title is The Wisdom of Tuscany.
For readers who want to discover Tuscany through Ferenc Máté's personal experience, with attention to everyday life and human relationships.
Ferenc Máté grew up in Budapest. He escaped Hungary with his mother after the crushing of the 1956 revolution by Soviet tanks. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and worked on a railroad extra-gang, on tugboats, and as a boat-builder. He then became a photographer, book editor, and writer. He has lived in Vancouver, Laguna Beach, Whistler Mountain, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter.
