The Book Club

Caroline Moorehead: The Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

40 min listen

In This Episode

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Moorehead, whose new book A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul tells the remarkable story of one of Italy’s best-known writers – who used the pulp detective novel to shine a light on the social and political rot of his native land.

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