Naples '44: A World War II Diary Of Occupied Italy - Brossura

Lewis, Norman

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ISBN 10: 0786714387 ISBN 13: 9780786714384

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press, 2005

Riassunto

As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis's twenty-seven books, Naples'44 is a landmark poetic study of the agony of wartime occupation and its ability to bring out the worst, and often the best, in human nature. In prose both heartrending and comic, Lewis describes an era of disillusionment, escapism, and hysteria in which the Allied occupiers mete out justice unfairly and fail to provide basic necessities to the populace while Neapolitan citizens accuse each other of being Nazi spies, women offer their bodies to the same Allied soldiers whose supplies they steal for sale on the black market, and angry young men organize militias to oppose "temporary" foreign rule. Yet over the chaotic din, Lewis sings intimately of the essential dignity of the Neapolitan people, whose traditions of civility, courage, and generosity of spirit shine through daily. This essential World War II book is as timely a read as ever.

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Descrizione del libro:

From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation

L'autore:

Norman Lewis was one of the greatest travel writers in the English language. He was the author of thirteen novels and fourteen works of nonfiction. His books include A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, The Tomb in Seville, and The Honoured Society, a nonfiction study of the Sicilian Mafia. Norman Lewis died in 2003 at age ninety-three.

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• Editore: Da Capo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786714387
• ISBN 13: 9780786714384
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 191