This tale
is told as a back-story.
Mira and
Nick , now divorced and remarried to other people, look back on the demise of their
marriage.
Only a hot
minute after the elaborate wedding of this golden, Ivy League couple, the wife
allows herself to be picked up in the business class lounge of an airport. You see, her husband left before her to take a
job in Rome and she was to follow later.
Well she
did, and got detoured along the way, in the airport lounge, by a wizened, aged, Italian billionaire, named Zenin.
Despite the
glamorous scenes of the high life of Rome, Paris, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, London
and Venice, it’s a pathetic tale of betrayal without the requisite love which generally
accompanies it. It’s a tale of sterile materialism and moral bankruptcy.
Personally,
I believe someone had slipped a Mickey on the golden couple back at the
wedding. The way I see it, the story makes no sense any
other way.
On an even
more cynical note: let me inform you that this is a triangular, interracial romance story, with a black female
protagonist, her cuckolded white husband and her detached and self-absorbed
European toy manufacturer.
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| author Andrea lee |
Lost Hearts is a most interesting novel taking place in
the most appropriate setting for such a dubious
subject…Italy!
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