SANTA ZANNI, by Steven Levi
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SANTA ZANNI, 87,000 words, is a work of narrative nonfiction. It is a collection of interlocking short stories offering a snapshot of California history from 1916 to 1920. It is also humor disguised as social commentary disguised as literature. It falls into the category of creative nonfiction.
SANTA ZANNI, by Steven Levi- Amazon Sales Rank: #2598155 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-21
- Released on: 2015-05-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great reading, loved the characters! By Amazon Customer SANTA ZANNIBook Review by Bonda LewisInstitute for Historical Studies, 2016To enter a book with no expectations and a completely open mind is an enormous pleasure: sometimes the book disappoints, but sometimes the adventure is a cheap crack! Happily Steven Levi’s SANTA ZANNI was the latter. I began with no idea what to expect or who I was going to meet. I finished with ears and mind full of as marvelous a group of zanies as ever performed with a Commedia dell’Arte company, and I knew a whole lot more about the how and why of California politics between 1910 and 1920 than when I crossed into the city limits.The characters are sharp and true, drawn with incisive, literate and witty descriptions, reminding me of Steinbeck. In a few vivid strokes we understand the character’s background and how it forms her (or his) reasoning, perceptions and values. And like Steinbeck, the characters who live in Santa Zanni live in real situations and real politics of the time, not the predictable ones of the Commedia invoked earlier. How can anyone resist Rudolph after Levi’s introduction?“He was called Rudolph the Red because he looked Russian. Or Bohemian, someone who was born east of any civilized part of Europe. German or Austrian he was not, and Giovanni, the barber from Palermo, who had been in Santa Zanni since 1906, said Rudolph wasn’t Greek or Portuguese, so that didn’t leave much of Europe for Rudolph to call home.So he was Rudolph the Red, the foreign-looking, bearded gnome who called Santa Zanni home. His English was fluent and he used words most people only read in out-of-town newspapers. He also had an accent that was so thick you could pour it on your pancakes. He was always dressed in workman’s clothes and wore heavy black boots that were never shined but never looked scuffed either.”The story proceeds to reveal the growth of unions and railroads, the organization of farm laborers, woman suffrage, religious hypocrisy (and sincerity), and brothels, and ordinary families in a town “south of San Francisco.”I had a problem getting into the story because I had not been warned that the characters were not “real.” I couldn’t find Santa Zanni on a California map – which lead to a lot of other questions. So I e-mailed [the author] to ask about it. He replied that the book was specifically written to give students a snapshot of life in Northern California between 1910 and 1920 and that “almost all of the people and events happened somewhere in California during that time period. The historical background is true.” [The book] is a dramatic, interesting, memorable narrative, constructed as historical fiction, with accurate historical facts and people who feel very real, but are not historical persons. Storytelling is a great way to teach history.What more could anyone – student or not – want? Be warned about the fiction element, but ultimately, just enjoy and learn.
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