Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST After years of dangerous operations

After years of dangerous operations for Treadstone

with sharp insight gained from years of experience

Desperate to escape his demons

Feta and Mint (an Israeli quiche)

Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST After years of dangerous operationsGoliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece"