Il giorno della civetta / Leonardo Sciascia ; edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary by Gerard Slowey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciascia, Leonardo.

Series:

Italian texts

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Murder--Italy--Sicily--Fiction.

Murder.

Italy--Sicily.

Mafia--Italy--Sicily--Fiction.

Mafia.

Sicily (Italy)--Fiction.

Sicily (Italy).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vi, 137 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

"Il giorno della civetta," set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a "carabinieri" captain investigating the mafia killing of a local building contractor in a small town in western Sicily. Captain Bellodi pursues his enquiries honestly and intelligently, without realizing that his intervention will stir up a hornets' nest. There are powerful figures who have a vested interest in making sure not only that Bellodi's inquiries will come to nothing, but that the very existence of the mafia itself can be denied. Leonardo Sciascia shows us not only the police operations but how shadowy, unidentified figures combine to frustrate Bellodi's investigation. Sciascia's intention in writing the book was to bring to as wide an audience as possible an awareness of the problem of the mafia and its hold, not only on Sicily, but on important areas of public life: the police, the judiciary, politics and even the Catholic Church. He succeeds brilliantly in this picture of his own beloved island.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-26).

ISBN:

0719054346

0719045509

OCLC:

39698645