Description
A man is gunned down in the piazza of a small Sicilian town—an opening act that draws Captain Bellodi into a case where every answer seems to be withheld. As he investigates a chain of murders tied to the local Mafia, Bellodi confronts not only criminals, but also the silence, complicity, and fear that protect them. Rather than a conventional whodunit, the novel becomes a tense moral and civic struggle, probing how institutions and ordinary people respond when evil is both present and denied. With Leonardo Sciascia’s sharp, unsentimental style and his reputation for turning crime fiction into social inquiry, this short masterpiece examines themes of justice, corruption, and the fragile line between truth and complicity.
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paperback
New York Review Books
Published Jan 1, 2003
124 pages
ISBN: 9781590170618
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
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