Istria: A Franco Fasiolo Novel - Chapter 4 (original) (raw)

Italics Magazine , 2019

Abstract

In this second novel of the series, Franco is hired to research the origins of a Malvasia vineyard in northwestern Istria. Catia Piagenti joins him on the job, and the pair carries out its work by examining the vines that they find on the property, moving from one parcel to another as they were planted over time. As they do, they find that the vines reveal stories from the period in which they were planted, as well as from previous periods that were passed down to them, including their origins in Greece and their long voyage to Istria. Initially expecting to write a routine report, Franco and Catia instead find themselves to be the recipients of a story that is at turns adventurous, funny and heartbreaking. The investigative team finds, contained within a single field, the record of a long history of a single variety of the novel’s true protagonist, Vitis vinifera, and the insight they gain into the lives and histories of the vines instills in the partners a new empathy for them, for the place in which they are grown, and for the humans who cultivated them.

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