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
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
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
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
