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Peter Robb - Midnight in Sicily, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2009

Midnight in Sicily

Av Peter Robb

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Behind Sicily's beauty lies a darker story of power and silence. Beginning with the trial of seven-times Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti for alleged Mafia involvement, Peter Robb enters a Sicily where politics, organised crime, culture and everyday life cannot easily be separated. Moving through Palermo and across southern Italy, Midnight in Sicily combines investigation with history, art, literature and food. Robb follows the long entanglement of Cosa Nostra with political and economic power, from post-war Sicily to the assassinations of anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the trials and revelations that followed. Markets, meals, painting and writing are essential to Robb’s understanding of the island. Leonardo Sciascia, Renato Guttuso and the physical life of Palermo sit alongside judges, politicians and Mafia bosses. The result is a dark, sensual portrait of Sicily and a searching account of how corruption survives by becoming part of the systems meant to contain it
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-07-02
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781407074399
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
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Peter Robb is an Australian author. He was born in the Toorak, Melbourne in 1946 and has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Brazil. His first book, Midnight in Sicily, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for non-fiction in 1997.His second book, M, a biography of the Italian artist Caravaggio, provoked controversy on its publication in Britain in 2000. A Death in Brazil, his fourth novel, was named The Age's non-fiction book of the year for 2004. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oulu in Finland and the Instituto Universitario Orientale in Naples.

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"One of the greatest charms of Robb's book is his evident delight in southern Italy, particularly its food, which is recorded with such intensity of memory that one can almost taste it... As an introduction to post-war Italy, to the country as well as its politics, it can have few equals" -- Caroline Moorehead Times Literary Supplement "Robb writes brilliantly about the cycle of violence in southern Italy. This unclassifiable book melds politics, the mafia, travel, autobiography and serious cooking" -- Andrew Taylor Independent "I love this book. It left me in a sweet and sour mood of exultation, grief, despair and hope which lasted for many days" -- Peter Goldsworthy Australian Review of Books "One of the finest books on the Italian south. [Peter Robb's] analysis is as riveting in its commentary on modern Sicilian life as The Leopard was to an earlier generation" The Economist "Peter Robb manages to celebrate the literature, art, manners and food of an entire region. His book is a masterpiece of elegant, sceptical enquiry and a pleasure to read" -- Ian Thomson Evening Standard

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