Conversations in Sicily |
 |
 click here for more details, find new or used items |
Elio Vittorini
|
|
Pages: 224 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1841954500
Pub: Canongate Books Ltd
Pub date: 2004-09-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 253215
Reader Reviews:
Italian magical realism (5/7 people found this helpful)
Vitttorini slowly introduces us to the strange and alternate view held by the sicilian emigre and the powerful and often fanciful and revitionist hold the "family" and concepts of home hold over those that have left these both behind in the search for something better. More a travel journal than a novel the book and its author descend slowly into the emotional morass that any homecoming creates, leaving us the reader, struggling with the allegory of a place that has changed beyond understanding and yet as Lampedusa says in The Leopard where, "everytrhing has changed and everything has stayed the same"
Similar Products
A Violent Life
Arturo's Island (Italia Series)
The Wine Dark Sea
The Day of the Owl
The Leopard (Harvill Panther)
Categories
Amazon.co.uk places this book into the following categories:
Books -> Subjects -> Fiction -> General