{"id":454,"date":"2021-02-19T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/?page_id=454"},"modified":"2021-06-19T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T10:43:29","slug":"o-romance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/o-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"The novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Loveandpizza.it\r\n

Carolina had only one thing in mind: to show everyone that she wasn\u2019t a little girl anymore. That she could do well on her own. That she was a person with her own dreams and opinions and who knew what she wanted to do with her life. \nWell, at least she was willing to find out. \nAn unexpected job interview via Skype and a job offer in Napoli help just graduated Dr Carolina decide to embark on the craziest adventure of her life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

In Brazil, her parents can\u2019t understand what they\u2019ve done wrong.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

In Napoli, there is her English teaching job\u2026 and one of the most handsome (and richest) men she\u2019s ever met ~ one of her students.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

In Napoli, there is also Margherita pizza\u2026 and the sweetest man she\u2019s ever met ~ her local pizzaiolo.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Carolina will find out that choosing a pizza topping isn\u2019t the most difficult thing to do, after all\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/p>\r\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever written <\/span>about <\/span><\/i>writing my novel, except for when I had to write my dissertation, that is. And, man, that was hard.<\/span>\r\n\r\nI went back to my dissertation to get some ideas for this presentation page and you\u2019ll probably laugh at what I\u2019m going to say to you now, but <\/span>Loveandpizza.it started as a \u201crevenge novel\u201d!<\/i><\/b>Not revenge for me. But revenge for my youngest sister, who\u2019s the inspiration for Carolina. - Thank you, Xu! I don\u2019t think the other person involved knows about this - obviously, no real names were mentioned, and characteristics of different people I met throughout my life were mixed to create Jean, the <\/span>bastard boyfriend<\/span><\/i> who betrayed Carolina (her words, not mine!).<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFor this introduction page, I\u2019ve separated a few excerpts from my Masters dissertation, which tells a bit about this novel, which I loved so much to write (so much that some days I was so angry at one character or another that I had writer\u2019s block!). I hope you enjoy it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAh, and before I forget, the translation of Loveandpizza.it to Portuguese is on the way, and it\u2019s been very well looked after by my dear friend Farah Serra<\/a><\/span>he\u2019s got a way with words! If you speak Portuguese, you must check her work HERE!<\/a><\/span>!<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nNote: below are excerpts from my master's dissertation \u201cMA in English and Creative Writing, by Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2013.\u201d<\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLoveandpizza.it is a chick-lit novel set in Brazil and Naples, Italy, in the school year of 2008\/2009. The narrative follows the experience and personal growth of a recently graduated doctor, Carolina, a sensitive, romantic and na\u00efve Brazilian, who has been cheated on and dumped by Jean, her French-descendant boyfriend, right before her final exams, and who decides to have a year off away, teaching English.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe secondary idea of Loveandpizza.it is to tell tales of Naples and its peculiar inhabitants, seen through an outsider\u2019s eyes, who is trying to find out who she really is and where she comes from. The chapters have been told in a funny, tragic and dramatic way, which are some of Carolina\u2019s personality traits. Carolina personifies the female flaneur, wandering around the streets of Naples and popular touristic places.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe stories depict funny characters and their way of living life (the art of <\/span>il dolce far niente<\/span><\/i>, for instance, meaning the art of \u201cthe sweetness of doing nothing\u201d) and dealing with everyday problems. Naples has been chosen for its chaos, as well as liveliness. The former is what her life is like now; the latter is what she is trying to recover. She goes to Naples to \u201crun away from home\u201d and ends up \u201cfinding home\u201d. In the middle of the chaos she\u2019s living, she\u2019s able to find the spirit and energy she needs to carry on living her life the way she believes is right.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGoethe\u2019s Italian Journey<\/span><\/i> (published in 1816\/17), is one of the books which have inspired me, and in it he describes what will attract the main character to this city and its people so much: <\/span>\u201cNaples is a Paradise: everyone lives in a state of intoxicated self-forgetfulness, myself included. I seem to be a completely different person whom I hardly recognize. Yesterday I thought to myself: Either you were mad before, or you are mad now.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span> (p.207)<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBesides, <\/span>De Crescenzo\u2019s Thus Spake Bellavista (1989)<\/span><\/i> helped set the mood for Carolina\u2019s adventures and stories, giving her the support she needs to prove that some weird and funny things really happen in this place (unbelievable to the outsider\u2019s eyes) and with this people.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis novel is about the search of a young girl and her beginning of a life on her own. It is filled with friendship and teaching anecdotes, as well as the common ingredients of chick-lit fiction: love, relationships, dating, family, roommates, corporate environment and family. Also present in this novel is the issue of social classes\u2019 differences and their consequences, such as prejudice, poverty and violence. As the narrative builds, the main character experiences love and frustration for the first time without having her family around and she has the support of her best friend.<\/span>\r\n

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/p>\r\nNow that you know the story, I'll tell you a little bit about the process of writing Loveandpizza.it. Once again, with anecdotes and excuses, because of course there had to be some, right? But if you want to skip this part, you have a few options:<\/span>\r\n\r\n

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\"Daniela<\/a>

GET TO KNOW A BIT OF MY STORY<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>

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\"Loveandpizza.it<\/a>

MEET THE CHARACTERS<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>

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\"Napoli<\/a>

LET ME SHOW YOU NAPOLI!<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSee you soon!<\/span>\r\n\r\nDani","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carolina tinha apenas uma coisa em mente: provar pra todo mundo que ela n\u00e3o era mais uma garotinha. Que ela conseguia se virar sem a ajuda de ningu\u00e9m. Que ela era uma mulher com seus pr\u00f3prios sonhos e opini\u00f5es, e que sabia o que queria fazer da sua vida. Bom, pelo menos era isso que…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-454","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveandpizza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}