
Siciliana
A Novel
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Narrado por:
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Lauren Ezzo
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Carlo Treviso
A family torn apart by conflict.
An uprising of deadly magnitude.
A nation altered forever.
Inspired by actual events, Siciliana is the harrowing tale of a young woman’s courage in the face of unthinkable turmoil.
In 1282 AD, the Kingdom of Sicily is under the rule of a tyrannical French king and subject to his brutal Angevin army. Daily acts of violence and persecution are commonplace in a once-prosperous realm.
For twenty-year-old Aetna Vespiri, daughter of a revered Sicilian knight, survival has become second nature. As a child, she witnessed the destruction of her family’s vineyard by Angevin soldiers and spent the next decade learning the tenets of stiletto-blade combat.
Years later in Palermo, as the evening bells toll for Vespers, Aetna fends off a nefarious sergeant and sparks an uprising against the Angevin occupation. Now, standing at the forefront of an accelerating people’s rebellion, Aetna finds herself fighting not only for a nation she believes in but also for the meaning of family. In her darkest hour, this dauntless Sicilian woman steps out of obscurity and into the pages of history.
The legend of Siciliana is born.
Set amid bustling Arab markets and brooding Norman fortresses, Siciliana will envelop listeners in the sights, sounds, and dangers lurking around every corner of medieval Sicily.
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Just wow!!
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Sicilian Read
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kept me waiting to see what happens next
a beautiful tale of rising up against the oppressors
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A Great Story about Sicilian Identity
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Medusa Lives Forever
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"Siciliana" by Carlo Treviso is set in a world of simmering conflict and burgeoning national identity, a world of austere fortresses and bustling markets. It is also a world where inhabitants endure casual cruelty, constant oppression, and utter hopelessness ( "Simmo Surfaru"). Sicily in 1282 was a powderkeg waiting for a single spark to ignite it. Our main character, Aetna Vespiri, IS the spark that will go on to engulf the whole island. After surviving the brutal destruction of her family by Angevin soldiers, Aetna finds herself inspiring and leading an island wide rebellion against one of the great empires of her day. The "Sicilian Vespers" provides a fascinating stage for a story like this and the author doesn’t squander its potential for one moment. And while it's a little more formulaic, bombastic, and cinematically written than you'd expect from a story like this, it is no less immersive, compelling, and entertaining. Despite it's rather "paint by numbers" character motivations, the author does a laudable job establishing the context of the rebellion itself and manages to stay (relatively) close to the established facts while also keeping you invested in those characters and using them to tell an entertaining and enthralling story. Readers should probably prepare for more of a pulp-adventure (think "Sicilian Zorro"), than historic epic however. Yet, despite its flaws, Treviso articulates the beauty of Sicily and the determination of its inhabitants as they collectively take their island back as a single, unified people spectacularly and will have readers immersed from word one.
If you enjoyed "Siciliana" by Carlo Treviso and are looking for similar titles then definitely check out "The Sicilian" or "The Family" by Mario Puzo. You might also enjoy "The Godmother" by Leigh Esposito, "The Shape of Water" by Andrea Camilleri, or "The Leopard" by Giuseppe di Lampedusa.
Guerra
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An entertaining telling of history
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The story itself could easily be made into an entertaining movie and has all of the Hollywood elements you could expect.
The big disappointing factor however is the narration. The narrator is from Michigan but apparently decided to narrate the story in a fake accent that sounds at times like eastern European or Russian. And, worse, she mispronounces many of the Sicilian/Italian words. It was even a little offensive for me, as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants, because my grandparents never sounded like that when they spoke English. it just seemed like a bad caricature. She even "stays in character" at the end of the book to read the acknowledgements, which was really condescending.
I would definitely recommend the book, but skip the audio book of you know what an Italian-American accent sounds like.
Fun, exciting tale but narration is awful.
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Very gruesome detail of the battles
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Exciting story, great narration
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