The Council of Egypt

To better his position during the time of the French Revolution, an unscrupulous priest, Vella, forges an Arabic manuscript justifying baronial privilege, and what follows are the terrifying consequences of reform gone awry

SCIASCIA, Leonardo

London: Harvill

Text: English, Italian (translation)

One way or another

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harper&Row

District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolutionâ€”or anything? Who is doing what to whom? Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extremeâ€”and grippingâ€”depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.

Equal danger

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Equal Danger

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Jonathan Cape Children's Books

A final collection from one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers introduces a stunning range of characters, from the world-weary to the wealthy and beautiful, in four short tales of murder and the investigations that follow in their wake.

Open Doors And Three Novellas

Contemporary

KNOPF

The Wine-dark Sea (Paladin Books)

Paladin

The Moro Affair / The Mystery of Majorana

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

“A miniature masterpiece [by] one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century European literature.”—The New York Times Book Review From one of modern Italy’s greatest writers come four flawless novellas that combine history and fiction while mapping the treacherous relations between individuals and the state. Whether set amid the paranoia of the fascist past or the criminal and political labyrinths of present-day Italy, the novellas in Open Doors are thrillers of Kafkaesque moral gravity, beautifully written and relentlessly engrossing. “During the last quarter century, Sciascia has made of his curious Sicilian experience a literature that is not quite like anything else ever done by a European.”—Gore Vidal “Sciascia has claimed a niche in the critical pantheon comparable to [that of] Pirandello and Borges.”—Washington Post Book World “Combining fiction, historical meditation, philosophy and intellectual detective work . . . these novels [are] a poignant gleam of the elusive gold standard in literature.”—Newsday “Our century’s most brilliant writer-detective.”—Village Voice

Open Doors and Three Novellas

Literary

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Il Contesto (Italian Texts) (English and Italian Edition)

Manchester Univ Pr

Il giorno della civetta, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a carabinieri captain investigating the mafia killing of a local building contractor in a small town in western Sicily. Captain Bellodi pursues his enquiries honestly and intelligently, without realizing that his intervention will stir up a hornets' nest. There are powerful figures who have a vested interest in making sure not only that Bellodi's inquiries will come to nothing, but that the very existence of the mafia itself can be denied. Leonardo Sciascia shows us not only the police operations but how shadowy, unidentified figures combine to frustrate Bellodi's investigation. Sciascia's intention in writing the book was to bring to as wide an audience as possible an awareness of the problem of the mafia and its hold, not only on Sicily, but on important areas of public life: the police, the judiciary, politics and even the Catholic Church. He succeeds brilliantly in this picture of his own beloved island.

Il Giorno Della Civetta: Leonardo Sciascia OUT OF PRINT (Manchester New Italian Texts)

History

Europe

Manchester University Press

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