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
- ISBN10 0330375520
- ISBN13 9780330375528
- Publish Date 7 September 2001 (first published 2 November 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 176
- Language English