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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This is a year of Sicilian life, its seasons and its sacred
festivals, its gorgeous fruits and demanding family life, its
casual assassinations and village feasts, its weather and the
neighbours. It chronicles a life divided between an apartment in
the city of Palermo with the weekends and summer devoted to
sustaining life in an old family farm. What makes this journal
truly exceptional is that Mary Simeti is both an outsider, (an
American who had studied medieval history and worked as a volunteer
on a social welfare programme) and an insider. For this journal was
written after twenty years of immersion in Sicilian life, as wife
to a Sicilian, mother to two Sicilian teenagers, as gardener, cook
and carer for a suspicious mother-in- law.
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