“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
“This is one of Sciascia’s great novels, which takes the form of a detective novel but is, in fact, a political novel, attacking the corruption of the (then) ruling Christian Democrat party as well as the Mafia control of Sicily. In a small Sicilian town, Manno, the town pharmacist, receives a death threat, though he cannot think why. When he is out hunting with his friend, Dr. Roscio, the local optician, both men are killed. Professor Laurana, a single, middle-aged man who teaches history and literature and who was a friend of both men, decides to investigate. The first thing he notices is that the death threat letter used words from the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. The motto of the paper, clearly visible, is Unicuique Suum, meaning to each his own.” The Modern Novel. Warning, full review contains spoilers…
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