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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.
| ISBN | 0571205925 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780571205929
(What's this?) | | Pages | 288 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Weight (grammes) | 210 | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Publication date | 06 Nov 2003 | | Width (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | DG430.2 \. | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 914.50493 | |
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