What Hell Is Not
by Alessandro D'Avenia
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Pub Date 03 Feb 2019 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2018
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Description
A heart-rending story of deprivation and resilience in mafia-run Palermo
‘Take away love and you will have hell, you used to say to me, Don Pino. Give love and you will have what hell is not.’
Sicily, 1993. Fear rules the streets of Palermo. Teenage boys patrol the narrow streets armed with AK-47’s, marking out the territory of their mafia bosses. This is what hell is.
Federico, a privileged local boy, is asked by his teacher, Don Pino, to help out at the youth club he runs in one of the most destitute areas of the city. A tangle of alleys controlled by men with nicknames like the Hunter, it is also where kids like Francesco, Lucia, and Totò never give up hope for a different life. Over that long hot summer, far removed from his familiar surroundings, a new world opens up for Federico, but when Don Pino is murdered, the future of the kids is entrusted to his young hands.
Based on real events,What Hell is Notis a heartrending story of deprivation and resilience that ultimately demonstrates the transformative power of small acts of love.
Advance Praise
‘The dark story of Father Pino’s passion and death is a long shriek of grief, but it is not in vain: it is also a hymn to love that becomes beauty.’ Antonia Arslan, author of Skylark Farm
‘A mature work that looks the theme of evil and violence in the eye.’ Libero
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781786072757 |
| PRICE | CA$37.50 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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