The Day of the Owl - Anthony Oliver, George Scialabba, Archibald Colquhoun, Leonardo Sciascia • BookLikes (ISBN:159017061X)

The Day of the Owl

by: Leonardo Sciascia (author) Archibald Colquhoun (author) George Scialabba (author) Anthony Oliver (author)

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781590170618 (159017061X)

Publish date: September 30th 2003

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Pages no: 136

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Italy, Mystery, Crime, Italian Literature

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BrokenTune rated it

8 years ago

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Mainlanders are decent enough but just don’t understand things. I came across Sciascia when browsing through the Sicily travel guide last week, which recommended The Day of the Owl (alongside Lampedusa's The Leopard) as quintessential Sicilian reads. The Day of the Owl begins with a murder that ...

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The Bookchemist rated it

11 years ago

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One of the first novels, and possibly the best ones, to loudly denounce the mentality and the social condition that keep the mafia strong in Southern Italy. So brutal it hurts, especially since its brutality sadly smells of true realism.Featured in my Top 5 20th Century Italian Novels: http://www.yo...

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