{"product_id":"9780394749389","title":"Sicilian Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolci’s years of work broke this silence. The result is \u003ci\u003eSicilian Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, a book which reveals the intimate experiences and perceptions of a wide range of Sicilians, rural and urban, through voices that are sometimes frightening, but always fascinating and unexpected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanilo Dolci has collected a rich panorama of voices—the eloquent testimony of Sicilians who, at last, are speaking out to penetrate the most profound dilemmas of an impoverished land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025198498032,"sku":"9780394749389","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780394749389_p0.jpg?v=1763697715","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394749389","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}