Naples '44

An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth

Norman Lewis

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English

Eland
31 July 2002

Biography: general; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Norman Lewis arrives in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population has devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women have been driven to prostitution and the black market is king.

Lewis finds little to admire in his fellow soldiers, but gains sustenance from the extraordinary vivacity of the Italians. There is the lawyer who earns his living bringing a touch of Roman class to funerals, the gynaecologist who ""specializes in the restoration of lost virginity"" and the widowed housewife who times her British lover against the clock. ""Were I given the chance to be born again,"" writes Lewis, ""Italy would be the country of my choice.""

By: Norman Lewis
Imprint: Eland
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9780907871729
ISBN 10: 0907871720
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 July 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Norman Lewis is Britain's greatest living travel writer, with a list of some 10 travel books and several books of collected journalism to his name. However Lewis regards his greatest achievement to have been the reaction to his article Genocide in Brazil, published in The Sunday Times in 1968. It led to a change in Brazilian law relating to the treatment of the Indians and to the formation of Survival International which fights for the survival of indigenous peoples everywhere.