Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra, (Paperback)

from nemoman

This could be the best book I have read on Sicily and Naples. Robb lived for 14 years in Naples and Sicily. The books wanders wondrously through time, however, Robb writes so seamlessly you do not seem to notice. His passions are food and art and he tells history through these passions. The book'...

from jason.goodwin

grippingly intelligent on the scandal of Italy (and rather interesting about food, too)

from lascaux

Amazing book, takes you backward and forward in time, weaves together politics, immediacy, the past, food and smells, visuals, places in Sicily and Naples. It's literature. Of an unusual kind. Has a lot of pace. I'm intrigued by the writer's handling of time, worth analysing. I tried a bit, but f...

from Bruce_McNair

This book tells the story of modern Sicily from its liberation in WW2 to the mid 1990s. Prior to this period, the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, had existed as another layer of society between the people and the government and controlled the daily lives of the masses. But since the war, the Mafia has als...

from Faradaydon

History as art and food