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The Wine-Dark Sea
Leonardo Sciascia
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Description for The Wine-Dark Sea
Paperback. A collection of the best of Sciascia's gritty, darkly glittering short stories Translator(s): Bardoni, Avril; Oliver, Arthur. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 158.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847089281
SKU
V9781847089281
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Wine-Dark Sea
Few writers managed to capture the taciturn Sicilian character better than Sciascia, who always understood the power of implication in his work. [A] superb collection
The Times
Brief, haunting and unforgettable
Sunday Tribune
A well-written and instructive collection
Time Out
There are 13 stories in The Wine-Dark Sea... I guarantee you will wish there ... Read more
The Times
Brief, haunting and unforgettable
Sunday Tribune
A well-written and instructive collection
Time Out
There are 13 stories in The Wine-Dark Sea... I guarantee you will wish there ... Read more