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Mainlanders are decent enough but just don’t understand things. I came across Sciascia when browsing through the Sicily travel guide last week, which recommended The Day of the Owl (alongside Lampedusa's The Leopard) as quintessential Sicilian reads. The Day of the Owl begins with a murder that ...
bookshelves: spring-2014, iphone-library, ipad, e-book, wwii, summer-2014, italy, tbr-busting-2014 Read from April 21 to July 05, 2014 Description: Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a ...
Read from December 30, 2013 to January 13, 2014 Of all the new authors I started reading in the past ten years, Italo Calvino is, undoubtedly, the most innovative when it comes to serious fiction. His novels never fail to amaze me either by their plots, the use of language, or their message. The Ba...
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One of the first novels, and possibly the best ones, to loudly denounce the mentality and the social condition that keep the mafia strong in Southern Italy. So brutal it hurts, especially since its brutality sadly smells of true realism.Featured in my Top 5 20th Century Italian Novels: http://www.yo...
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