BEPPE SEVERGNINI
Wednesday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Four years after regaling readers and audiences such as those here at Elliott Bay with his engaging bestseller, Ciao, America!, Milan-based journalist Beppe Severgnini makes this welcome return for his much-anticipated new book, La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind (Broadway). As the title indicates, in this new book the lens goes the other way: it is Italy and Italians who get the humorous focus of Mr. Severgnini's perceptive eye. "Don't read this book—unless you have the courage to let Dottore Severgnini carve up your well-worn stereotypes about Italy. La Bella Figura proves that twenty-first-century Italians are more complicated than we thought. Sort of like Europeans. And Beppe loves them all." - Howard Tomb. "The book on perplexing Italians...Severgnini's most systematic probe of the Italian psyche yet...A keen observer of human nature, [he watches] his compatriots with amused insight...laugh-out-loud funny." - International Herald-Tribune.

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