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FRANK VIVIANO, at-large foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, has covered events ranging from the fall of Marcos in the Philippines and the Tianamnen Square crackdown to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Bosnian civil war. A two-time recipient of the World Affairs Council's Thomas Storke Award for Achievements in International Reporting, he is the author of six other books.

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In a land steeped in family tradition, the rootless Viviano (a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle) looks to uncover a family secret: how his great-great-grandfather, a man mysteriously known as "the Monk," was gunned down at a crossroads in rural Sicily more than a century earlier, the victim of an ordered hit. In search of answers, Viviano travels to his ancestral village of Terrasini. He soon discovers that when it comes to the island's history, there are always two competing versions of the truth: "one lies in the official past, the other in the folk memory and its poetic reincarnation in fable." His book echoes this sentiment as he intersperses the rather linear account of his investigation with a fictional re-creation of events supported by his findings. Each complements the other, and the book is further enriched as, over the course of his clearly weighty research, Viviano shares a portrait of Sicily and its inhabitants. Of particular interest and, as it turns out, importance are his discoveries about the origin of what has become most strongly associated with the island the mafia, or sistema del potere. Viviano is clearly fascinated by it, but his own experiences with carnage as a reporter keep him well clear of any Hollywood glorification. Rather, he traces its evolution as a brutal yet organic power structure in a land traditionally ruled by outsiders. Viviano's conclusions seem both well reasoned and enticing, as do the results of his inquiry into the story of his great-great-grandfather a search that comes to a particularly satisfying surprise ending. And while, in its purest form, the book is a solid piece of storytelling and reporting, its greatest strength may be that while it begins as a personal search, it ultimately reveals the history of a people. Agent, Amy Rennert. 5-city author tour. (May 8)Forecast: Viviano's unsentimental but poignant closeup of one Sicilian family and the role of the Mafia how it began and how different it has become will appeal to fans of the equally unsentimental but courageous TV program The Sopranos. His five-city author tour is sure to garner critical and popular attention.

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Prologue
PART I
o N E: A Stranger in the Village
T w o: The System
THREE: Mike
F o u R: An Old Man's Riddle
F 1 V E : Ano in the Desert
PART lI
slx: A Map
s E v E N: The Red Sash
EIGHT: The Monk
N I N E : The Saint and the Beast
TEN: A Burglary at Paternella
E L E V E N : Dark Franky

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(西西里黑手党的爱恨情仇)Blood Washes Blood

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