Stella o croce by Gian Mauro Costa Review

Angela Mazzola knows life on several levels. The Thirty Years’ comes from Borgo Nuovo, an ugly concrete area on the outskirts of Palermo, where it is difficult to find work at all. With hard work and ambition it has eaten through their school career, made at the boarding school in the suore High School, odd jobs and a sommelier course completed (which brought her Although no job, but taste and a good friend – and our readers some indication of good Sicilian drops), then boldly advertised to the police – and was accepted

Every day she pushes conscientious service in the Sezione Antirapina in Palermo, where it is or has to do with pharmacy burglaries, cigarette smuggling and petty criminals also experienced nothing special times when they patrol through the old town .

and by right is proud of its achievements and enjoys many of which in Sicily can only dream of: a secure job, a regular salary, a small apartment in the Acqua Santa section with terrace overlooking Marina Sea.

Since she likes to sit, looking at the sunset and leaves from her butler Gianpi still some wine pour … no, the latter is one of the wishful thinking that does not take them too seriously himself.

has a steady partner and needs them Not. Older colleagues like the burly Ettore Macaione ( “poliziotto XL”) who knows interesting to tell from the police past, never miss an opportunity to flirt with her, and sympathetic locals, who want more of her abbr than the usual