| #661530 in Books | Danilo Dolci | 1981-12-12 | 1981-12-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.75 x5.50l,.95 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | ISBN13: 9780394749389 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sicilian Lives Do Matter|By Tony Theil|Dolci has not learned from Studs Terkel that "hope dies last". Each interviewee has a pessimistic tale to tell, completely devoid of optimism. They clearly reveal for over 30 years the obstacles put before them in a society controlled by corrupt politicians, mafiosi, and feudal land barons. And in some stories, the ground is literally f||“Mr. Dolci also listens, which is why he is called the Oscar Lewis and Studs Terkel of Sicily. For 30 years, he has written down what he hears and read it back to the teller. A story—a connection—is made; lives are rescued from silence. . . .
When Danilo Docli, peace worker, organizer, educator, first arrived in 1952 in Trappeto, a village of peasants and fishermen in western Sicily, there were no streets, just mud and dust, not a single drugstore, not even a sewer. (In fact, the local dialect didn’t even have a word for sewer.) Like other Sicilians, the villagers, seen by many Italians as “bandits,” “dirt-eaters,” and “savages,” had, in effect, been mute for centurie...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sicilian Lives (Pantheon Village) | Danilo Dolci. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
