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十年过去了，2008年华尔街的股灾还是记忆犹新。

Rosso Fiorentino -- 一个典型的義大利浪漫派男主角 -- 在印度遇上了他的挚爱Chloe，随后便为了追寻他的爱情到了纽约的街头。一个缺乏技巧、只会耍浪漫的義大利人可以靠什么为生呢？佛卡恰面包。

在街头打滚了许久以后，Rosso终于开了一家小小的面包店。结果谁也没想到Rosso做的佛卡恰面包会引来这么大的回响。转眼之间，Rosso从街贩摇身一变成了一家上司公司的总裁，有了爱情又有了面包。可是Rosso人生转捩的那一年，刚好是2008年。

作者以2008年的环球金融危机为故事的背景，展开了一场关于华尔街、面包与现代乱世的爱情故事。在金融风暴席卷华尔街以后，Rosso要如何在纽约的法庭上保护自己坚信是崇高又美好的東西呢？
 
关于作者：
Enrico Pellegrini 是在義大利出生的作家。他除了是一名成功的律师，也是一个从19岁就开始作家生涯的小说家。他的第二本小说La Negligenza获得了義大利知名的Premio Campiello 文学奖。Enrico Pellegrini 最新的作品Something Great and Beautiful是先用英文写作，后来才在他的家乡意大利出版。


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本书好评: 

A NEW YORK POST ‘MUST READ’ BOOK
 
“A dazzling story in which sex and finance are interwoven. I couldn’t stop reading it.” —Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette 
“Five Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in September” –  TOWN & COUNTRY
 
“Set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis, Something Great and Beautifultakes us from India to Portofino and the high-stakes world of Wall Street…. This darkly funny, plot-twisting novel from Enrico Pellegrini is about ambition and arrogance, and will entertain you in those final days of summer.”—TOWN & COUNTRY
 
“The true wolves of Wall Street from someone who knows them well.” —VANITY FAIR (ITALY)

“Both a love story and a witty indictment of the boom-or-bust cycles of the financial world, Something Great and Beautifulis an enjoyable, almost mythical tale written with flair and searing insight.” —BOOKLIST
 
“This delightfully preposterous send-up of the 2008 economic crash doesn’t disappoint….skewers the absurdities of Wall Street, combining the comic with the trenchant to create a winning recipe.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL 
 
“Rivals The Big Short, you fly to the last page” — Il Fatto Quotidiano

“Enrico Pellegrini gave the 2008 financial crisis time to bake, rise, and cool before blasting it with his incisive and satirical novel Something Great and Beautiful….This deceptively light-hearted comedy invites readers to ruminate on what exactly happened with the financial crisis and who is to blame….Alone, these dry economic questions are easy to relinquish to financial analysts and market regulators. However, when wrapped in the appealingly offbeat adventures of Rosso and his bumbling path to bread riches and fulfilling love, such complex issues become far more palatable. Is Rosso a savvy crook or an ignorant dupe, and does it matter?
…Whether Rosso is a victim or perpetrator of the system’s corruption ultimately depends on perspective. One thing is clear, however: Rosso seeks to build something tangible and meaningful. Even in a broken banking system of intangibles, he ultimately succeeds. Crook or not, that makes him a hero to root for.” —FOREWORD REVIEWS
 
“Focaccia and money are very different sorts of bread: here they mingle in a heady, well-paced tale of murky finance, narrated by a very talented author.” —Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series

"Vividly cinematic, wickedly funny, searingly realistic and intoxicatingly romantic. Enrico Pellegrini's Something Great and Beautiful is indeed beautiful, and a great read." —Ruby Namdar, author of The Ruined House
 
“What an improbable match: a story of love, Wall Street, and focaccia! Delicious!”—Donald Bogle, author of Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop—A Love Story

“I don’t know what it’s like to be rich and bedeviled, but Enrico Pellegrini does, or at least the narrator of his Dionysian romp of a novel does. With crystalline, delightful, surprising, and above all exuberant prose, we are drawn irresistibly into this world of people whose lives ought to be so fun and easy, and turn out to be even more confusing and discombobulating than our own. If Aristophanes were alive today, he would write just like Pellegrini: he makes us laugh, with sympathy, at the gods disguised as people who are living among us.” —Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell, Love and Lies, and Bad Sex