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The Four Corners of Palermo
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590516652
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00

The Four Corners of Palermo

A Novel

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21 Oct 2014
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15 Nov 2014
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Set in Palermo, Sicily, a crime reporter narrates this noir yet sensual literary page-turner that cracks open the Mafia's secret world through the stories of four lives.

A noir and sensual page-turner that cracks open the Mafia’s secret world through the stories of four lives

Palermo in the 1980s is a perfect place for a young crime reporter to get his start. The Sicilian Mafia is at work, threatening, wounding, and killing anyone who dares to defy their orders. Our protagonist is himself no angel, hardly compassionate, a bit macho and egocentric, but candid in his recounting of what has unfolded in front of his eyes both on the job and in his private life.

Di Piazza, who is also a Sicilian journalist, tells his stories as if he were reporting actual events. His description of the tense bravado of a youth growing up in the midst of Mafia terror is strikingly acute.
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590516652
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for The Four Corners of Palermo

"Di Piazza recounts the people and the lives destroyed by violence with felicitous accuracy in his selection of details and psychological motivations, but he also gives us a vivid portrait of Palermo, lovely at times, like a postcard, with that climate, that light, that blue sea, and at other times a monstrous, alien city." --CORRIERE DELLA SERA

"A book written on two registers: on the one hand, pure noir, dramatically bound up with the story of Palermo, the city of a Mafia bloodbath in the 1980s, and on the other hand, a generational tale, young people chasing after their utopian dreams to the notes of Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and Emerson Lake & Palmer." --GIORNALE DI SICILIA

"Four nested stories, like four movements of a symphony, where the allegro, the adagio, the grave, and the scherzo continually intermingle" --IL MESSAGERO