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The Rose Café: Love and War in Corsica
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This memoir of the author’s brief sojourn working at a café and auberge in Corsica is populated with a questionable group of locals, fugitives, and escapists during the Algerian and Vietnam Wars.
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John Hanson Mitchell
John Hanson Mitchell is the editor of Sanctuary, the journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and the author of The Paradise of All These Parts and Ceremonial Time.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a young adult, John Hanson Mitchell found himself on the island of Corsica with absolutely no agenda other than to work in a cafe in order to watch and listen to the people around him. As a dishwasher in the Rose Cafe he had the opportunity to mingle with the guests and learn their life stories. Forty years later he writes about his experiences, describing Corsica as otherworldly and mysterious; hinting at zombies and shadowy characters. While there isn't a standard plot to Rose Cafe, Mitchell does an amazing job not only describing the people he met, but bringing the island's history to life. Because he was on the island in the early 60s, World War II was still fresh in a lot of people's minds. Mitchell himself was "in hiding" to avoid the draft.
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