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The Dark Heart of Italy (eBook)
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Short Description for The Dark Heart of ItalyA guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy. It explores not just Italy's familiar delights (art, climate, and cuisine), but the livelier and stranger sides of the bel paese: language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 04 September 2008
- Format: eBook 320 pages
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- Categories: Miscellaneous Items | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780571246052 ISBN 10: 0571246052
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Full description for The Dark Heart of Italy
This is an essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy. In 1999, Tobias Jones travelled to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors and famous writers. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. Now, in this fascinating travelogue, Jones explores not just Italy's familiar delights (art, climate, and cuisine), but the livelier and stranger sides of the bel paese: language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism. Why, he wonders, do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a 'brothel'? And why do people warn him that 'Clean Hands' only disguise 'Dirty Feet'?
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