Title: a literate saga
Product review: Salamone's second novel, the first of a projected trilogy, paints a broad canvas of Sicily in the first half of the 20th Century. Mixing themes of religion and politics, submission and rebellion, desire and death, the Sicilians is that rarest of achievements: a page turner with literary depth . . . and a history lesson to boot. The Daluci brothers, Turi and Luciano, seem to have descended from the Karamazovs, by way of the Thornbirds; the bloodlines are electric. This is a rivetting read that stays with you long after you've closed the cover.
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