Sicilians
Alfio Caruso
For readers who harbor a secret love for Sicily.
Perhaps no other region has produced as many geniuses, as well as great criminals, to the nation’s history as the Sicilians. It is home to sublime writers and equally outstanding villains, sophisticated political minds and ruthless saboteurs of the public good. Therefore, Caruso does not make any haphazard generalizations of their impenetrable identity. Instead, he tells the stories of certain figures who exemplify the “mystery of sicilitudine” (Sicilianness). These stories range from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa to Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, physicist Ettore Majorana, the powerful Lanza di Trabia family, and politician Vito Guarrasi. A celebration of one of the least understood regions in Italy.
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