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The New York Review Books Classics series brings another excellent writer and storyteller to the attention of a wider audience with the publication of 'The Day of the Owl' by Leonardo Sciascia. 'The Day of the Owl' opens with the murder of an honest Sicilian contractor - on a public street in front of a bus load of commuters as well as a street peddler. When the caribinieri arrive to question the witnesses, they all suffer...
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Leonard Sciascia's Sicily is a dark place, even while it basks under a hot noonday sun. In "The Day of the Owl", Sciascia's native Sicily (he was born in Racalmuto, Sicily in 1921) is a place where there is crime but no punishment, at least no official punishment. Sciascia's Sicily is a place where the code of silence trumps the penal code and where crimes are seen by all and witnessed by none. In Sciascia's Sicily the...
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A great crime novel with deep social and political roots. It is a captivating crime investigtion novel that opens up a fascinating political and social universe in Sicily with its roots extending to the highest political levels.
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Imagine a time before the Sopranos, before the Godfather, and before Mario Puzo. The mafia, particularly in Italy, was virtually virgin territory in literature - no one dared write about it. Leonardo Sciascia (pronounced "Sha-Sha") was one of the first to break the code of silence. In the Day of the Owl -- a short, quick read that provides an excellent snapshot of a Sicilian village in the mid-20th century -- Sciascia transplants...
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