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Book synopsis

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 poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.

Book details

• Full title: The Wine Dark Sea
• Author: Leonardo Sciascia, Albert Mobilio, Avril Bardoni
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201
• EAN: 9780940322530
• ISBN: 0940322536
• ID: 11038173
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2000

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