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To Each His Own

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:23:48 +0000

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

The Wine-Dark Sea

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:05:39 +0000

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.

The Day Of The Owl

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:01:06 +0000

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society.

Indeed, his enquiries are soon blocked off by a wall of silence and vested interests; he must work against the community to save it and expose the truth.The narrative moves on two levels: that of the investigator, who reveals a chain of savage crimes; and that of the bystanders and watchers, of those complicit with secret power, whose gossipy, furtive conversations have only one end – to stop the truth coming out. This novel about the Mafia is also a mesmerizing demonstration of how that organization sustains itself. It is both a beautifully, tautly written story and a brave act of denunciation.