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by Tonino Benacquista (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press (1 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190473801X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904738015
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 381,134 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Some favours simply cannot be refused. Tonio agrees to write a love letter for Dario, a low-rent Paris gigolo. When Dario is murdered, a single bullet to the head, Tonio finds his friend has left him a small vineyard somewhere east of Naples. The wine is undrinkable but an elaborate scam has been set up. The smell of easy money attracts the unwanted attentions of the Mafia and the Vatican, and the unbridled hatred of the locals. Mafiosi aren't choir boys, and monsignors can be very much like Mafiosi. A darkly comic, iconoclastic tale.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious, 22 Mar 2004
A witty, satirical thriller, in which the main suspense is the humour, and just as for a good italian meal, you wish you had another Tonino Benacquista to look forward to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Miracle, Mafia and Monseigneurs , 9 Jun 2006
As the plot unfolds and the diverse protagonists gather for the kill you will only put this book down to buy another Benacquista
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3.0 out of 5 stars In a clash between the Vatican and the Mafia, who would you side?, 17 Mar 2009
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This writer of Italian origin lives and works in France, and this novel, a darkly comic tale of iconoclasm is in its own way a search for his own roots. His protagonist Tonio, just like him, comes from claustrophobic rural Italy, where the reach of the Mafia is long, the young yearn to escape the mind-numbing monotony of daily existence, the Catholic church is all-powerful, and superstition and selfishness cause generations-long feuds. Tonio write a letter for a low-level gigolo Dario and finds shortly thereafter that Dario is killed, he has inherited a vineyard in his old village, and people are gunning for him. He returns to the village to claim his inheritance, determines that its wine is undrinkable and is visited by the local Mafiosi who want him to give up the plot. The locals suddenly hate him with a passion and he sets up a scam that brings him to the attention of the Vatican. And the fun starts!
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