Sicilian Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394749389)

When Danilo Docli, peace worker, organizer, educator, first arrived in 1952 in Trappeto, a village of peasants and fishermen in western Sicily, there were no streets, just mud and dust, not a single drugstore, not even a sewer. (In fact, the local dialect didn't even have a word for sewer.) Like other Sicilians, the villagers, seen by many Italians as "bandits," "dirt-eaters," and "savages," had, in effect, been mute for centuries.

Dolci's years of work broke this silence. The result is Sicilian Lives, a book which reveals the intimate experiences and perceptions of a wide range of Sicilians, rural and urban, through voices that are sometimes frightening, but always fascinating and unexpected.

Danilo Dolci has collected a rich panorama of voices--the eloquent testimony of Sicilians who, at last, are speaking out to penetrate the most profound dilemmas of an impoverished land.

With a foreword by John Berger

Author: Danilo Dolci
ISBN-10: 0394749383
ISBN-13: 9780394749389
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/12/1981
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d