The Council of Egypt
Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian history. Over the ironies of plot and character, hangs the crueller irony of history. In the evocation of a country, its people and its traditions, this is Sciascia's largest and most vivid canvas.
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'During the last quarter century, Sciascia has made out of his curious Sicilian experience a literature that is not quite like anything else ever done by a European...' Gore Vidal.
Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1983) was a novelist and politician whose works were often set in his troubled, mafia-blighted homeland of Sicily. He hailed from Racalmuto in the south-west of the island and lived there for much of his life.
General Fields
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- : Head of Zeus
- : Head of Zeus
- : 01 December 2016
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2017
- : 11 August 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Leonardo Sciascia
- : Paperback
- : 1703
- : 853.914
- : 224
- : FA