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A Simple Story by Leonardo Sciascia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Modern Voices
The first translation into English of the acclaimed mystery-writer's final detective novel serves as the perfect introduction to an important Italian writer. Published just before the author's death, this novel refines and condenses Sciascia's analysis of corrupt systems and the crucial part they play i ...Show more
Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime
The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconstancy. The four novellas in Sicilian Uncles (1958) political thrillers of a kind - are the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions ab ...Show more
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of si ...Show more
The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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'; the reader comes to realise that he is eavesdropping on the musings of a mafia boss and his underling. ...Show more
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