The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels Through Time and Space Across Italy de Tobias Jones
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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 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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