In Sicily

by NormanLewis (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $7.92

  Few places on earth can 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. Lewis treats us to his observations on the Mafia. 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. 'Still travelling and writing beautifully' - Evening Standard . 'Norman Lewis proves he has lost none of his panache, subtle sense of humour or lyrical prose with his latest book, In Sicily ...I simply urge you to read this book' - Sunday Express .

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $22.43

  In 1964, Norman Lewis wrote The Honoured Society , one of the very best books about Sicily and the Mafia. In 1998, he returned to the island and in this book he looks back on his half-century-long fascination with all things Sicilian. It is his fascination with the Mafia that pervades the book, but he writes too of landscape and language, of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration (not least in the field of prostitution), of his memories of Danilo Dolci, of Palermo and its ruined palaces - and of strange superstitions, of witches and exorcism and murder.