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A Simple Story by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Crime Fiction
District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this string of murders an individual vendetta or a more sinister plot? The charming Inspector Rogas is determined to find out. The pursuit of truth and justice are Rogas's vocation, but ...Show more
Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Fiction
Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian hist ...Show more
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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 Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
Category: Fiction
In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed, his enquiries are soon blocked off by wall of silence and vested interests; he mus ...Show more
The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia; Albert Mobilio (Introduction by); Avril Bardoni (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent p ...Show more
The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
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
To Each His Own by W. S. (INT) Adrienne (TRN); Di Piero Leonardo; Foulke Sciascia
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: New York Review Books Classics
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