Name: On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
Price: 267.00 ZAR
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Author: Mary Taylore Simeti
ISBN: 9781780601076

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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal

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Physical Book

Publisher

Eland Publishing Ltd

Author

Mary Taylore Simeti

Synopsis "On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal "

This is a year of Sicilian life, its seasons and its sacred festivals, its gorgeous fruits and demanding family life, its casual assassinations and village feasts, its weather and the neighbours. It chronicles a life divided between an apartment in the city of Palermo with the weekends and summer devoted to sustaining life in an old family farm. What makes this journal truly exceptional is that Mary Simeti is both an outsider, (an American who had studied medieval history and worked as a volunteer on a social welfare programme) and an insider. For this journal was written after twenty years of immersion in Sicilian life, as wife to a Sicilian, mother to two Sicilian teenagers, as gardener, cook and carer for a suspicious mother-in- law.