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Tobias Jones
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The Dark Heart of Italy |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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288 |
| Date: |
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2003-01-20 |
| ISBN: |
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0571205828 |
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Faber and Faber |
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0.93 pounds |
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5.51 x 8.66 x 1.26 inches |
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First Edition |
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1 Katherine Llorca (France) |
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1 Curzon Tussaud (United Kingdom) |
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Product Description
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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