In Sicily Lewis Norman
In Sicily Lewis Norman A loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-year fascination with all things Sicilian. We benefit from his friendships with policemen, journalists,…
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In Sicily Lewis Norman
A loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-year fascination with all things Sicilian. We benefit from his friendships with policemen, journalists, and common people. Dedicated to a Sicilian journalist killed by a Mafia bomb, Lewis rarely lets us forget the presence of organized crime.
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, witches, bandits, and