Title: Well-written and worth it for a different kind of novel
Product review: This is not a novel with an active protagonist. You can't sit back and just let a movie take place in your head. The many characters in small town Sicily weave their own straw into what will become a complex basket of a tale, but it's slow in coming. I wasn't trying to force memorize who was whom or who had said what prior; I just read each chapter and enjoyed the descriptions. Eventually the story becomes gripping.It's not the novel you can't put down in the first half. Rather, you can put it down and attend to life, and the more you return to it, the less long you can leave it on the table. The last quarter is where details start to spill and the secrets are revealed.There is so much of Italy, of Sicily, in the book that you do feel as though you just got off the plane from there, as if you just read a book in Italian, even after reading this English version.
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