Ian Thomson: Una conversazione a Palermo con Leonardo Sciascia

“A wide-ranging portrait of the Sicilian writer and his work. Sciascia did not live to see this interview-conversation published, but in private he often spoke of that ‘serious Englishman’ who took the time and trouble to visit him in Palermo.”Il Sole 24 Ore “Ian Thomson is very good at creating atmosphere and knows how to …

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Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life

The definitive biography of Primo Levi to mark the centenary of his birth, with a new introduction by the author. Reviews “Pacy, straight-down-the-line… coolly authoritative.”Blake Morrison “Clearly written with love, and unlikely to be surpassed.”Sunday Telegraph Introduction PRIMO LEVI Preface to the 1919-2019 centenary edition             On 11 April 1987, a day of bright spring …

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Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom

In January 1804 the West Indian island of Saint-Domingue became the world’s first black republic after the slaves toiling on the sugar fields rose up against their French masters and, at the end of a thirteen-year insurgency, proclaimed independence. Saint-Domingue was renamed Haiti (an aboriginal Taino-Arawak Indian word meaning “mountainous land”) and the Haitian flag …

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