Unto the Sons

I enjoyed this as much or more than everything else I have read by Talese. This is no light read, though. The historical detail packed into the pages was literally exhausting at times but I never contemplated putting it down. Talese's writing just won't allow that. It took a solid two months to read as I would pick up a magazine or some such every week or so but this book is so worth your time. If you are from an Italo-American family this is a must-read. If you are a fan of history, memoir or just great non-fiction right, you will love it as well.

Très bon livre, bien écrit, bien documenté; ce n'est pas un roman, mais cette saga familiale se lit comme si c'en était un.

De la región de Calabria mucho antes del siglo XIX a las sastrerías de París, de las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial al paseo marítimo de Ocean City, de Garibaldi a Joe DiMaggio, de Lucky Luciano o Sinatras al menor de los Talese: los hijos desgrana la odisea de una familia y, a través de ella, la de los millones de emigrantes italianos que llegaron a Estados Unidos en el despertar de una época que cambiaría el mundo.