Salt in the Wound followed by The Death of The Inquisitor

Leonardo Sciascia

Orion Press

Each of the two novellas and seven investigative tales in this book unfolds in the form of a judicial inquiry or inquest in which Sciascia's forensic skills are brought to bear on an unresolved mystery from the Inquisition or some later dangerous time.

Death of an Inquisitor

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harvill P.

NY 19797 1st Harcourt Brace. Translated from italian to English by Adrrienne Foulke. Hardcover Small octavo, 132pp., cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ, price not clipped. "One of Europe's great contemporary writers" (jacket)

Candido, Or, A Dream Dreamed in Sicily

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

One Way or Another (Paladin Books)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Collins Publishing

Thirteen stories set in Sicily deal with the mafia, moral corruption, love, loss, and conflicts between religion and government, men and women, and order and chaos

The Wine-Dark Sea (English and Italian Edition)

Carcanet Press

1912 Plus 1

Contemporary

Carcanet

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 must work against the very community to save it and expose the truth.The narrative moves on two levels: that of the investigator, who reveals a chain of savage crimes; and that of the bystanders and watchers, of those complicit with secret power, whose gossipy, furtive conversations have only one end: to stop the truth coming out. This novel about the mafia is also a mesmerizing demonstration of how that organization sustains itself. It is both a beautifully, tautly written story and a brave act of denunciation.

The Day of the Owl

Genre Fiction

Granta

The Wine-Dark Sea

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Granta Books

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 about ideology and history are lost in mirth, in suffering, and innocence is abandoned. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1948. These occasions and their consequences are registered in the lives of Sciascia's wonderfully drawn characters. Each has voice, wit, and a private history which open out onto the wider circumstances of his time, and hint towards the later work of Sciascia.

Sicilian Uncles

Romance

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