The Dark Heart of Italy
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, now fully updated with chapters on Berlusconi's demise and the 2006 corruption scandal that hit Italian football.
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The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones, now fully updated with chapters on Berlusconi's demise and the 2006 corruption scandal that hit Italian football.
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In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones' account of his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula.Jones is preoccupied not by Italy's art, climate, or cuisine, but by the livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese : language, football, Catholicism, cinema, television and terrorism. Why, he wonders, is there a parliamentary commission investigating Italy's terrorist 'slaughters', and why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a 'brothel'? And why do people warn him that 'Clean Hands' only disguise 'Dirty Feet'?
Slowly, though, one clear truth emerges: the entire country is in the hands of one man. He owns banks, estate agencies, mobile phone companies - not to mention half the television channels, one of the best football teams, and great swathes of Milan. His personal wealth is estimated at $14 billion. And now, thanks to his coalition with 'Post-Fascists', he - Silvio Berlusconi - has become President of the Ministerial Council. Could this be why everyone in Italy is so paranoid?
Autoren-Porträt von Tobias Jones
Tobias Jones is the author of two travel books, The Dark Heart of Italy and Utopian Dreams . His novel, The Salati Case , was the first in a series featuring the Italian private detective Castagnetti, followed by White Death .In 2012 he published his true crime account of an Italian serial killer, Blood on the Altar .
Jones has written and presented documentaries for the BBC, and for RAI television in Italy, and is a columnist for the Observer and Internazionale .
He runs a small 'woodland shelter' in Somerset with his wife and three children.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tobias Jones
- 2007, Open Market Edition, 320 Seiten, Maße: 17,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571235921
- ISBN-13: 9780571235926
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Jones can be recommended as an informed, entertaining and admirably opiniated guide The Times
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