In Sicily by Norman Lewis

In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlong?fascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the?course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first wartime visit to a land?untouched since the Middle Ages through his frequent returns, he has watched the island?and its people as they have changed over the years! Dedicated to a Sicilian journalist killed by a Mafia bomb, he rarely lets us forget the?presence of organized crime. We benefit from his friendships with policemen, journalists?and common people. Moreover, he writes beautifully of landscape and language, of his?memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes and?member of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African?immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces and of strange superstitions, of witches?and bandits and murder.
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