Scheduled for an April 2011 release:
Mr. Celzani finds himself consumingly in love with an Amazonian gymnast with whom he shares an apartment block. The machinations of their fellow inhabitants notwithstanding, he finds his romantic efforts repeatedly thwarted by his beloved’s single-minded focus on her rigorous physical discipline. …
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Actually that’s a reprint of a novella by Italian Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908).
It could be interesting. An exploration of female fitness, sexual stereotypes and gender roles in nineteenth-century Italy
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