The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia becomes involved with a revolutionary

becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organisation

This book is his masterwork

He works with numbers

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The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia becomes involved with a revolutionaryHere are some of Sciascia's greatest stories brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board a ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a