- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Picador (1 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330440756
- ISBN-13: 978-0330440752
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.8 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 927,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Murder, the movies and mafia family values - in an exhilarating debut that has taken Europe by storm
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Metropolitan Catania, and Tony's barbecues are a neighbourhood sensation. Each weekend the party girls rub shoulders with elegant Mafiosi - and no wonder, since Tony's uncle Sal runs the local show. When a policeman is shot in uncle Mimmo's shop, it isn't your ordinary murder. Lou Sciortino - gin and tonic in hand, newly arrived from his safe job laundering mob money in New York - finds more in the Old Country than he'd bargained for. This is sunny Sicily, where no one is truly anyone's friend, killers have sidelines in amaretti, the nicest people can still bring on the apocalypse, and grandfathers are to be feared above all men... Meet the family that makes the Sopranos look like the Waltons. ‘Cappellani’s Catania has the brutality of Quentin Tarantino and the trash of Pedro Almodovar’ Corriere della Sera ‘Brilliant dialogue . . . All the plot and rhythm of great cinema’ Vanity Fair ‘Finally the post-modern and metropolitan Sicily has found its ideal chronicler . . . A completely exhilarating story’ La Repubblica
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Tries to be a Sicilian Elmore Leonard but doesn't make it
16 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
This Sicilian novel has a wide array of over the top characters. The point of view shift swiftly from character to character forward in time. Although the characters are richly drawn, especially with their family histories, the plot moves like someone who has eaten too much pasta and Chianti at dinner and needs to take a nap.
Although the novel makes explicit comparisons to The Sopranos and its characters, I didn't buy it. The characters in the novel are much slower moving and far less competent in their practice of crime.
If you're looking for something in this vein, go read Charlie Stella. He shifts perspectives just as Cappellani does, but the plotting is much tighter and the irony is twice as thick.
Although the novel makes explicit comparisons to The Sopranos and its characters, I didn't buy it. The characters in the novel are much slower moving and far less competent in their practice of crime.
If you're looking for something in this vein, go read Charlie Stella. He shifts perspectives just as Cappellani does, but the plotting is much tighter and the irony is twice as thick.
Okay read, different style of writing.
16 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
I bought this as a 2 dollar book on clearance. I'm from an Italian family so thought it might be a somewhat fun read as a mafia novel. Overall it ends up being a descent book just takes a real long time to get into the good stuff. Also the writing style and names get kind-of confusing at first. If you really want to check it out I'd say go for it. If your looking for a great read keep looking.
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