Why We Cannot Say We Are Not Mafia

More than 2,000 years of Sicilian history, starting with the Arabs and Phoenicians, are explained in this book. Sicily is a unique land of contradictions, where snow-capped mountains are only 30 kilometers from tropical beaches. This pattern of opposites is most apparent in the Mafia, the embodiment of all of Sicily’s negative qualities, which contrasts the rest of Sicily’s rich culture.