Dark Heart of Italy
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Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? And why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones set out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsular. What emerges is not a book about the tourist concerns of climate, cuisine and art, but one about the much livelier and stranger sides 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 Republic.
Author: Tobias Jones
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 127mm x 197mm
Published: 2003, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: Travel Writing
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Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? And why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones set out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsular. What emerges is not a book about the tourist concerns of climate, cuisine and art, but one about the much livelier and stranger sides 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 Republic.
Dark Heart of Italy