This is a novel set in the afermath of Italian unification. It's about a young woman of Sicilian nobility who reviews her life from a prison cell in order to understand actions--murdering her husband, joining brigands--that led her there....
A classic of Italian feminist mafia literature about a gender-bending mafiosa and the writer who becomes obsessed with telling her storySicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdere...