Blood Washes Blood

Biographies & Memoirs

VIVIANO, Frank

Leaders & Notable People

Arrow Books, Ltd.

The author, a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, journeys back into his own family's past to investigate the century-old murder of his great-great grandfather, a revolutionary and legendary bandit known as "the Monk," and the conspiracy of silence that followed the crime.

Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun

Historical

Atria

Against the sweeping backdrop of western Sicily, in a riveting seven-year quest, Frank Viviano pieces together his own harrowing ancestral history of betrayal and redemption. His take is haunted, from its violent opening to its stunning climax, by an ancient Sicilian proverb, Lu sangu lava lu sangu, "Blood washes blood": the torrent of unforgiving vengeance that flows from an unforgivable offense. Viviano's great-great grandfather was a legendary bandit who traveled the countryside of Sicily by night in the robes of a friar and was known as "the Monk." His brutal murder has remained shrouded in mystery for four generations. Until now. Populated by an extraordinary cast of nineteenth-century Robin Hood brigands and twentieth-century underworld bosses, here is a true-life Godfather, in which past and present finally merge into a single story with a shattering climax that ultimately changes the way the author views his immigrant family's complex legacy -- and himself.

True Crime

Atria Books

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Century Books

Collects the works of street photographer Nikos Economopoulos in the Balkan Peninsula, putting a human face on the warfare and annihilation that happens there every day

In the Balkans

Arts & Photography

Economopoulos, Nikos

Photography & Video

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Exploring the Best Ethnic Restaurants of the Bay Area

Travel

Silva, Sharon

Food, Lodging & Transportation

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