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The Dark Heart Of Italy. Travels Through Time And Space Across Italy

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#269413
Titel	The Dark Heart Of Italy. Travels Through Time And Space Across Italy
Auteur	Jones, Tobias
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Faber and Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0571205925
ISBN13	9780571205929
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	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... (Lees verder) is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality, fact from fiction.
Pagina's	266
Conditie	Goed — Yellowed.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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