That would be a much better book, and I wonder if I can find out if such a thing exists. Unfortunatly, my Italian isn't good enough to work through a novel written by an Italian, so I'd have to hope for a good translator.
I wonder if it's not culture shock, per say, but rather a fascination with a more "amoral" police system/culture at large - this may be a distinction without a difference. But it could result in just enough exaggeration to make me uncomfortable - I'd rather not believe that the majority of Italians work constantly surrounded by sharks scheming to gobble them up if they stop paying attention for a second, and I'm a biased enough American that I have trouble wrapping my head around the idea of big crimes - murder, especially - only serving as another battlefield for endless gaming.
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Date: 2005-03-22 04:31 pm (UTC)I wonder if it's not culture shock, per say, but rather a fascination with a more "amoral" police system/culture at large - this may be a distinction without a difference. But it could result in just enough exaggeration to make me uncomfortable - I'd rather not believe that the majority of Italians work constantly surrounded by sharks scheming to gobble them up if they stop paying attention for a second, and I'm a biased enough American that I have trouble wrapping my head around the idea of big crimes - murder, especially - only serving as another battlefield for endless gaming.