Lucille Bellucci
I was born in Shanghai, China to an Italian-Dutch-Indonesian father and Chinese mother. My novels are The Snake Woman of Ipanema, The Year of the Rat, Journey from Shanghai, Stone of Heaven, and a story/essay/poetry collection titled Pastiche.Visit Author's Website
excerpt from “Journey from Shanghai”
JOURNEY FROM SHANGHAI
by
Lucille Bellucci
The Roman autumn gave the city back to Italians. Colors changed. Women’s dresses and silk scarves graduated to rusts and crimsons. The huge chestnut burrs on the thirty-foot trees on Via Veneto and near the Bardinis’ home on the Lungotevere swelled and split to expose the reddish-brown nuts inside. […]
