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Critique de MargueriteDesPalmiers
Lu en anglais.
Hmm. How do I feel about this book? It was not a disappointment, that's for sure. The further I got in the book, the more I liked it. Although I didn't especially like any of the characters except for the little man, Hector Adonis. There is a lot of fascinating information in this novel, on the real-life Salvatore Guiliano, on the mafia, on Sicilians and Sicily, and on the Italian government post WW2. I will definitely share this book and recommend it to a few people. So how many stars? At the beginning, I would have given it three stars. Now that I'm done reading it, I would give it five stars because I was really gripped by it, but tiny little things still irk me (see quotes below) even though I know the book was written by a man and published in 1984.
“And then, because the little girl was so pretty and he couldn't bear to think of her being punished, he gave her a note for her parents.” (Me: So, if you're a little girl, it's best to be pretty.)
“When she got out of the car Michael could see she was pregnant; though she wore the modest loose dress of the Sicilian woman it was not black, rather a hideous floral rose and white. But her face was so pretty the dress didn't matter.” (Me: So, if you're a pregnant woman, it's best to be pretty.)
“So Caesero Ferra could anticipate his daughter's answer; that was no surprise. But the way she received the news was a shock. She smiled wickedly at her father as if she had planned the seduction, as if she had known she could vanquish Guiliano.” (Me: So, if you're a seductive 16-year-old girl, you might get blamed by your own father for a hero's downfall or, like Eve with Adam, for the downfall of humanity.)
Hmm. How do I feel about this book? It was not a disappointment, that's for sure. The further I got in the book, the more I liked it. Although I didn't especially like any of the characters except for the little man, Hector Adonis. There is a lot of fascinating information in this novel, on the real-life Salvatore Guiliano, on the mafia, on Sicilians and Sicily, and on the Italian government post WW2. I will definitely share this book and recommend it to a few people. So how many stars? At the beginning, I would have given it three stars. Now that I'm done reading it, I would give it five stars because I was really gripped by it, but tiny little things still irk me (see quotes below) even though I know the book was written by a man and published in 1984.
“And then, because the little girl was so pretty and he couldn't bear to think of her being punished, he gave her a note for her parents.” (Me: So, if you're a little girl, it's best to be pretty.)
“When she got out of the car Michael could see she was pregnant; though she wore the modest loose dress of the Sicilian woman it was not black, rather a hideous floral rose and white. But her face was so pretty the dress didn't matter.” (Me: So, if you're a pregnant woman, it's best to be pretty.)
“So Caesero Ferra could anticipate his daughter's answer; that was no surprise. But the way she received the news was a shock. She smiled wickedly at her father as if she had planned the seduction, as if she had known she could vanquish Guiliano.” (Me: So, if you're a seductive 16-year-old girl, you might get blamed by your own father for a hero's downfall or, like Eve with Adam, for the downfall of humanity.)
