| Title:
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THE DAY OF THE OWL
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| By: |
Leonardo Sciascia, Arthur Oliver (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1862074186 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781862074187 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
26 April, 2001 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
A dark-suited man is shot as he runs for a bus in the piazza of a small town. The investigating officer is a man who believes in the values of democratic and modern society, and soon finds himself up against a wall of silence and vested interests. |
| Synopsis: |
This short novel about the mafia is also a mesmerizing demonstration of how that organization sustains itself. It is both a beautifully written story and a brave act of denunciation. A dark-suited man is shot as he runs for a bus in the piazza of a small town. The investigating officer is a man who believes in the values of a democratic and modern society, and soon finds himself up against a wall of silence and vested interests. The narrative moves on two levels: that of the investigator, who reveals a chain of nasty 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |