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The Wine-Dark Sea

English

By (author): Leonardo Sciascia

Translated by: Arthur Oliver, Avril Bardoni

Here are some of Sciascia's greatest stories - brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' - who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a long time at sea, their landfall is far from what they expected. And Mussolini himself takes an interest in the case of Aleister Crowley, whose presence in Sicily has become an embarrassment. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 157g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847089281

About Leonardo Sciascia

LEONARDO SCAISCIA was born in Sicily in 1912 and died there in 1989. Like Joseph Roth Sciascia worked with deceptively simple forms - books about crime historical novels political thrillers - and was a master of lucid and accessible prose. This polished surface conceals great depths of sophistication and an intense engagement with the moral and historical problems of modern Italy especially of his native Sicily. His books are rooted in a particular culture; they speak to anyone who has ever wondered how people can endure unbearable injustice.

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