Dark Heart of Italy An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country

Name: Dark Heart of Italy An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country
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ISBN: 9780865477247

ISBN-10: 0865477248

ISBN-13: 9780865477247

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Authors: Tobias Jones

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In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. "The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge…

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List price: $23.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgements



"Parole, Parole, Parole"



"The Mother of All Slaughters"



Penalties and Impunity



The Sofri Case



The Means of Seduction



Pietra and Parola



"Fewer Taxes for Everyone"



Forzismo



Penisola Felice


Notes


Index