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Sicilian Uncles

Sciascia, Leonardo
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781847089267
Published
2014-01-02
Publisher
Granta Books; Granta Books
Weight
151 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Author
Sciascia, Leonardo
Translated by
Thompson, N.S.

Biographical note

LEONARDO SCIASCIA was born in Sicily in 1912 and died there in 1989. Like Joseph Roth, Sciascia worked with deceptively simple forms - books about crime, historical novels, political thrillers - and was a master of lucid and accessible prose. This polished surface conceals great depths of sophistication and an intense engagement with the moral and historical problems of modern Italy, especially of his native Sicily. His books are rooted in a particular culture; they speak to anyone who has ever wondered how people can endure unbearable injustice.

Sicilian Uncles

Sciascia, Leonardo
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Sciascia, Leonardo
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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A dazzling set of four novellas, glimpses of the trauma of Sicilian history through minutely assembled individual lives

- Philip Hensher, Spectator

Sciascia is so infuriatingly good that you wonder whether his Protean talents are not those of a secret syndicate

Observer

The master of sophisticated detective fiction remains Leonardo Sciascia, whose novels are an extended investigation into what it means to be Sicilian

Guardian

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, originally published in 1958, are political thrillers of a kind - the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions about ideology and history are lost in mirth, suffering and abandoned innocence. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1848. 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 opens out onto the wider circumstances of his time.
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Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin
Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin

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A dazzling set of four novellas, glimpses of the trauma of Sicilian history through minutely assembled individual lives

- Philip Hensher, Spectator

Sciascia is so infuriatingly good that you wonder whether his Protean talents are not those of a secret syndicate

Observer

The master of sophisticated detective fiction remains Leonardo Sciascia, whose novels are an extended investigation into what it means to be Sicilian

Guardian

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, originally published in 1958, are political thrillers of a kind - the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions about ideology and history are lost in mirth, suffering and abandoned innocence. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1848. 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 opens out onto the wider circumstances of his time.
Read more
Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin
Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin

Product details

ISBN
9781847089267
Published
2014-01-02
Publisher
Granta Books; Granta Books
Weight
151 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Author
Sciascia, Leonardo
Translated by
Thompson, N.S.

Biographical note

LEONARDO SCIASCIA was born in Sicily in 1912 and died there in 1989. Like Joseph Roth, Sciascia worked with deceptively simple forms - books about crime, historical novels, political thrillers - and was a master of lucid and accessible prose. This polished surface conceals great depths of sophistication and an intense engagement with the moral and historical problems of modern Italy, especially of his native Sicily. His books are rooted in a particular culture; they speak to anyone who has ever wondered how people can endure unbearable injustice.

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