In Sicily

In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlongfascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in thecourse of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first wartime visit to a landuntouched since the Middle Ages through his frequent returns, he has watched the islandand its people as they have changed over the years! Dedicated to a Sicilian journalist killed by a Mafia bomb, he rarely lets us forget thepresence of organized crime. We benefit from his friendships with policemen, journalistsand common people. Moreover, he writes beautifully of landscape and language, of hismemories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes andmember of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of Africanimmigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces and of strange superstitions, of witchesand bandits and murder.