In Sicily

In 1964 N. Lewis wrote The Honoured Society; In 1998 he returned yet again to write this book, the resutl of a sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian. In Sicily reveals this fiascination on every page. Throughout there is the Mafia, and Lewi´s freindships with policemen, journalists and men of respect. But more, he writes of landscape and language, of his memories of his first father-in-law, of Sicily´s changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces and of strange superstitions, of witches and bandits and murder.