I love travel books. Papaya Salad is both a travelogue and a memoir - as such, it's making you travel both across the globe, from Bangkok to Rome to Berlin to Vienna to New York, and across time, from present day to Thailand in the 1920s or Europe in the 1940s.
The author, Elisa Macellari, is a half-Italian, half-Thai illustrator, born and bred in Perugia. In Papaya Salad she's telling her grandfather's story - the story of a poor kid that loved reading and travelling, just like me :), and who...
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