The Wine-Dark Sea (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	New York Review of Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	October 2000
Authors:	Leonardo Sciascia
Introduction by:	Albert Mobilio
Translators:	Avril Bardoni
Dimensions:	203 x 131 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	201
ISBN-13:	978-0-940322-53-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-940322-53-6
Barcode:	9780940322530

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