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1912 Plus 1by Leonardo SciasciaISBN 0856358029 (0-85635-802-9)
Hardcover, Carcanet Pr
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Candidoby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1860460267 (1-86046-026-7)
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The Council of Egyptby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 185754434X (1-85754-434-X)
Softcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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The Day of the Owlby Archibald Colquhoun, Leonardo Sciascia , Arthur Oliver, George ScialabbaISBN 159017061X (1-59017-061-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Owl'Book summary:A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence. A surprise turn puts him on the track of a series of nasty crimes. But all the while Bellodi's investigation is being carefully monitored by a host of observers, near and far. They share a single concern: to keep the truth from coming out.
This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. [via]More editions of The Day of the Owl:
The Day of the Owlby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1862074186 (1-86207-418-6)
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Day of the Owl, Equal Dangerby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 0879235160 (0-87923-516-0)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Equal Dangerby Leonardo Sciascia , Adrienne W. Foulke, Carlin RomanoISBN 1590170628 (1-59017-062-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Danger'Book summary: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 revolutionor 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 extremeand grippingdepiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel. [via] 
The Knight and Death & Other Storiesby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 085635953X (0-85635-953-X)
Hardcover, Carcanet
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The Moro Affairby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1862075220 (1-86207-522-0)
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Moro Affair and the Mystery of Majoranaby Leonardo Sciascia , Sacha Rabinovitch, Peter RobbISBN 1590170830 (1-59017-083-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moro Affair and the Mystery of Majorana'Book summary:On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the terrorist group the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on March 18 they said he would be tried in a "people's court of justice." Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the trunk of a car parked in the crowded center of Rome.
The Moro Affair presents a chilling picture of how a secretive government and a ruthless terrorist faction help to keep each other in business.
Also included in this book is "The Mystery of Majorana," Sciascia's fascinating investigation of the disappearance of a major Italian physicist during Mussolini's regime. [via]More editions of Moro Affair and the Mystery of Majorana:
One Way or Another : And, the Knight and Deathby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1862075794 (1-86207-579-4)
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The Plague Sowerby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 0941419134 (0-941419-13-4)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Sicilian Unclesby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1862074380 (1-86207-438-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sicilian Uncles'Book summary: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. [via]
Sicily As Metaphorby Leonardo Sciascia , Marcelle PadovaniISBN 0910395993 (0-910395-99-3)
Softcover, Marlboro Press
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A Simple Storyby Paul Bailey, Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1843914255 (1-84391-425-5)
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To Each His Ownby Leonardo Sciascia , Adrienne FoulkeISBN 0856359912 (0-85635-991-2)
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The Wine-Dark Seaby Leonardo SciasciaISBN 1862074143 (1-86207-414-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wine-Dark Sea'Book summary:A novelist, polemicist, occasional politician, and perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize, Leonardo Sciascia died in 1989. He left behind a formidable array of books, all of which revolve around the hallucinatory realities of Sicilian life. But the stories collected in The Wine-Dark Sea may be the best introduction to his work. They offer a kind of capsule history of Sicily, ranging through several hundred years and engaging the country's events from their exhilarating and terrible underside. A good comparison might be the naif's-eye view of Waterloo that Stendhal creates in The Charterhouse of Parma. (Sciascia recalls Stendhal in other ways, too; he shares the same adamant clarity, the same bone-dry wit, which may explain why he's always been a hard sell in the United States.)
These tales all have a certain riddling quality, whether they're recounting a nugget of Sicilian history or staging one of Sciascia's many comedies of ironic disillusionment. Included among the latter are "The Long Crossing," in which an assortment of Sicilian immigrants are disbursed of their life savings and put ashore not in the New World but back on their own island. There's also the superb title story, about the bottomless chasm separating Sicilians and outsiders, bridged only temporarily by a group of strangers traveling from Rome to Agrigento. "Philology," the closest thing to a classic Pirandellian exercise, lets us eavesdrop on two mafiosi cramming for an upcoming session with a Commission of Enquiry. The subject: how to answer the question "What is the Mafia?" They consult a battery of dictionaries, arguing about the merits of various definitions and etymologies. At the end, the superior of the two adds his own footnote to the scholarship:
And we know that the thing itself, the association, was already in existence by the fact (this is my addition) that the mafiosi imprisoned in the Vicaria issued a directive in 1860 addressed to their friends outside, advising them to behave well and not commit such crimes as theft, rape and murder that the Bourbons could use ... against the Garibaldi revolution.
This enlightened thug concludes his history lesson with a general point: "Culture, my friend, is a wonderful thing." So too is fiction, at least in Sciascia's hands. He offers little in the way of certainty, but his questions, posed with deadly accuracy, are worth the answers of a dozen other authors. --James Marcus [via]
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