The result of 30 years of living and working in Italy, Dominic Stewart’s How to Become Italian: A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide provides some precious if not entirely serious tips for those of you considering staying or living in Italy.
These tips include how to behave in restaurants and cafés, what to on Sundays and on Easter Monday, how to deal with the summer heat, how to negotiate driving and public transport, how to seek romance.
But also Including: how to cope with an Italian husband, how to keep your children amused, how to greet, wish and swear in Italian, how to celebrate Carnival without getting really annoyed, how to cope when your house is surrounded by fifteen yapping dogs, how to lose all sense of personal space, and how to understand weather forecasters.
What this book does not do is serve up another cute, sun-drenched ex-pat account of ‘living the dream’ in Italy.
You have been warned!
Published 2019; in e-book format only.
Available on Amazon’s British site, American site and Italian site.
Published primarily for the Kindle, but accessible to any e-book platform through the free kindle app.
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Reviews
“…for someone thinking of settling in Italy (or already has and is still getting to grips with it), this is a fun easy-to-read guide; and for the rest of us it is a lovely piece of humorous writing – with just a little bit of edge underneath it…!” (Amazon reviewer).
Dominic Stewart, Writer 