Christ Stopped at Eboli The Story of a Year Edouard Kopp struggle and community

struggle and community

damaged early on by shame

Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize

food scientist

"The story of how he was inspired to write the book is almost as intriguing as the revelations about his 190 chosen plants

Christ Stopped at Eboli The Story of a Year Edouard Kopp struggle and communityIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levia doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letterswas confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italys Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In so