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 ...
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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 the case of Aleister Crowley, whose presence in Sicily has become an embarrassment.
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Seller's Description:
Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1st UK edition. Slight foxing on top page fore-edge-edge; text clean; binding tight. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but with trace of shelf-wear.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Near Fine/Very Good: this is a collection of short stories by the Sicilian author, written between 1959 and 1972; the mafia is a recurrent subject in these stories, which reveal how mafia language becomes an instrument of power and control, how omerta (the code of silence) works, and how mafia culture penetrates Sicilian life; the political stories probe the tensions between church and state, women and men, ideals of order and the historical realities which frustrate them (black cloth with gold lettering on spine, pages very slightly tanned; white & pink pictorial dust jacket with red & blue lettering, photo of author on the back, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
