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The Dark Heart of Italy

Travels through Space and Time across Italy

By Tobias Jones

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| Paperback | 9780571214242

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Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones sets out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Continue

Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones sets out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. What emerges is not a book about the tourist concerns of climate, cuisine and art, but one about the much livelier and stranger side of the "Bel Paese": the language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism - and the grip exercised by Berlusconi through his vast media empire and Presidency of the Ministerial Council. The Italy Tobias Jones discovers is a country which is proudly "visual" rather than "verbal", and where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment. It is a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality, fact from fiction.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 057121424X
  • ISBN-13: 9780571214242
  • Publisher: Faber
  • Publish date: 2003-01-01
  • Dimensions: 178 mm x 112 mm x mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover , eBook
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