The Wine Dark Sea
Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia; Albert Mobilio (Introduction by); Avril Bardoni (Translator)
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : NYRB Classics
- : 0.22226
- : 01 October 2000
- : 203mm X 131mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : Paperback
- : Leonardo Sciascia; Albert Mobilio (Introduction by); Avril Bardoni (Translator)