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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Wine-Dark Sea
• Author: Leonardo Sciascia
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781847089281
• ISBN: 1847089283
• ID: 02399672
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 158 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 128 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2014

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