The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel
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Ernest van der Kwast. (2017). The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel. Simon & Schuster.

Ernest van der Kwast. 2017. The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel. Simon & Schuster.

Ernest van der Kwast, The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Ernest van der Kwast. The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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In this "moving story of how sacrifices accumulate in the wake of passions left unfulfilled" (Publishers Weekly)—perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Lisa Genova—a poet must decide if he should put his family's or his own needs first when he returns to Italy help run the family business he left behind years ago.
As the heir to a proud Northern Italian ice-cream dynasty, Giovanni Talamini's family is none too happy when he decides to break with tradition and travel the world as a poet. So when Giovanni receives an unexpected call from his brother, he is faced with a difficult decision: return home to serve in his family's interests or continue on his own path in life once and for all?

In a heartwarming tale that weaves history with lore and poetry with delicious recipes, The Ice-Cream Makers paints a century-long, multigenerational portrait of a family wrestling with their identity and how to ensure their legacy. This is a "delightful read; smooth as ice cream on a hot summer day" (Kirkus Reviews).

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     June 19, 2017
     Van der Kwast (Mama Tandoori) returns to themes of family, legacy, and tradition in this novel about a poet returning home to Northern Italy to help run his family’s ice cream company. The Calamine family has been in the ice cream business for three generations, making yearly trips to the Netherlands to sell hand-churned ice cream ever since Giovanni Calamine’s great-grandfather started the business, establishing their strong reputation on these seasonal trips. Ice cream has been the family’s passion for decades, and when Giovanni decides that he wants something else for his life, his father and brother see the choice as a betrayal of a family legacy. Van der Kwast jumps around the Calamine family tree to reveal a complex web of duty and love that ties the family to the dream of the original patriarch and uncovers how that dream has transformed through the years. Although plot takes a back seat to a thoughtful portrait of the family, van der Kwast ultimately tells a moving story of how sacrifices accumulate in the wake of passions left unfulfilled. Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writer’s House.

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     June 15, 2017
     Giovanni Talamini makes a decision to "break with the family tradition" by walking away from the ice cream business that his great-grandfather Giuseppe began.In the late 1800s, Giuseppe found his life's passion, gathering snow from the mountains and creating rich ice cream. Thus begins a business that churns through the lives of four generations of the Talamini family. Giuseppe's son loved to invent things, but he sublimated his desire and assumed his intended role as ice cream maker. Later, his two sons, Giovanni and Luca, are expected to enter the family business. Giovanni distances himself and heads to college; later he travels the world as director of the World Poetry Festival. Luca remains in the business, finding his passion (or is it a diversion?) in creating unique flavors. In the end, Luca's son must decide what his role in the family will be. In his U.S. debut, Dutch novelist van der Kwast artfully strings together a series of chapters that could conceivably be stand-alone short stories into a cohesive whole that shows the impact, for better or worse, that family members can have on each other's lives. Giovanni is narrator, observer, and secret keeper. Characters seem to live in a cloud of separation despite being surrounded by those they love. The ultimate decision as to how each character chooses to live affects present and future generations of their family in ways both expected and unexpected. Poetry and history provide the mortar that binds the story together. Van der Kwast tells his multigenerational tale with great sensitivity, demonstrating through powerful observations the long-term effect of one person's decision upon others throughout the generations. A delightful read; smooth as ice cream on a hot summer day.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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As the heir to a proud Northern Italian ice-cream dynasty, Giovanni Talamini's family is none too happy when he decides to break with tradition and travel the world as a poet. So when Giovanni receives an unexpected call from his brother, he is faced with a difficult decision: return home to serve in his family's interests or continue on his own path in life once and for all?

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