Lewis looks back on his long-standing fascination with Sicily and the Mafia, evoking the island's landscape and language, considering its changing sexual mores, the effects of African immigration, mem
Crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance The light lash of Lewis's humour and his sniffer-dog's nose for the oddball remain undiminished. - The Guardian
British travel writer Norman Lewis was at various times a photographer and spy in Yemen and Europe working for the British government during the WWII era. In this book (first published in 1993 by Jona
Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages
