Dark Heart of Italy - Couverture souple

Jones, Tobias

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571205925 ISBN 13 : 9780571205929

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Tobias Jones studied at Jesus College Oxford. He was on the staff of the London Review of Books and of the Independent on Sunday before moving, in 1999, to Parma.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571205925
• ISBN 13: 9780571205929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288