With his account of his sojourn in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, Carlo Levi undertook to show the reader the Italy usually left out of history and travel books. Now in its seventh decade, Christ stopped at eboli remains a classic of its kind- an incredible portrait of a place, its people, and the customs they have fashioned over time, rendered in prose praised for its 'gray el greco beauty' and shrewd human insight.
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