Midnight in Sicily

From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes "quite simply the best book in English about Italy" (The Economist)

Winner of the Premiers Literary Award's Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction

Off the Southern Coast of Italy lies Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Robb lived in Italy for fourteen years and he expertly records its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, and the history of the Mafia in "a wonderful book, enthrallingly told" (The Boston Globe).