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Bestselling francophile phenomenon Peter Mayle returns with another delightful (or should we say delicious) account of the good life, this time venturing beyond his beloved Provence to treat readers to the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France.

Encara Provença completa la trilogia del periple dun anglès per la vida i els constums de la Provença. Al llarg de la novelála hi ha moments per aturar-se i menjar alguna cosa, incloent-hi in banquet en una gasolinera transformada o un rendez-vous a Chez Fonfon, a Marsella, per conèixer la veritable bouillabaisse. Però després de dinar la vida continua, i el lector descobrirá, entre daltres curiositats, una escola per a olfactes a Haute Provence, un jardiner que cultiva tomàquets negres, un crime passionnel dun carnisser, un expert en funerals i un assortiment dels personatges més excèntrics que aguaiten els bars i les pistes de botxes. Peter Mayle ens acompanya novament en aquest viatge pel sud de França, una regió que ha anat dibuixant llibre rere llibre. Bon appétit!

Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog "Boy"—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have a very good time trying.

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Retrat idíl·lic i, alhora, visió mordaç d´uns francesos tranquils vistos per un anglès que s´instal·la a viure a