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"A somewhat different photo-text book with photographs by Barbara KLEMM about Sicily, which does not drive off the sights, does not marvel at Taormina and Cefalù, Piazza Armerina and the Valley of the Temples. The texts in the book are not so much accompanied as punctuated by photographs taken by Barbara KLEMM while traveling in Sicily. They tell a story of their own.Content
The author of the photo-text book 'With the back to the sea. A Sicilian Diary', Andreas Rosmann, has visited places and perceived on the paths, often detours, a reality that does not appear in the art and travel guides, a present full of surprises and discoveries that lives in the shadow of the overpowering history. Everyday stories and chance encounters are described and collected, highlights and spotlights open up views of a Sicily that is real and yet seems strange, leading through airports and train stations to bars and restaurants, to huts and palaces, to the streets of Palermo and remote mountain nests, to abandoned sulfur mines and villages wiped out by the earthquake, to the last city in Italy and once even to the hospital. Literary traces, from Goethe to Sciascia and Joachim Fest to Roberto Alajmo, are taken up, the sites of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's childhood in Palermo and in Santa Margherita di Belice are visited. But above all, it tells of people, stayers and returnees, emigrants and immigrants, nobles and 'little' people, Mafia opponents and Mafiav repressors: The stories, sketches and episodes, portraits and miniatures combine to form a kaleidoscope that pleasurably contradicts more than one preconception about Sicily, that of the closed-minded Sicilian. Impressions and experiences of a summer so unexpected and stimulating that the travel diary had to be continued in the following four years." (© King, 2017)About the author, Andreas Rossmann
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- Andreas Rossmann
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- Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag wie erschienen), 13 x 20 x 2 cm. 200 S., 43 ganz- bzw. doppelseit. S/W-Abb. & 2 Karten, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT IN GERMAN ONLY!
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