Leonardo Sciascia

Donde impera el miedo, todo el mundo calla: la novela más célebre de Leonardo Sciascia.En la plaza de un pequeño pueblo siciliano, Salvatore Colasberna, socio de una pequeña empresa contratista y antiguo albañil, es asesinado cuando esta a punto de subir al autobus que se dirige a Palermo. Los pasajeros del autobus, aterrados, se apresuran a huir, y nadie ha visto nada, o eso dicen. Pero las circunstancias de su muerte parecen cada vez mas complejas y puede que la misteriosa desaparicion del campesino Mendolia guarde relacion con el caso. Un joven capitan de los carabineros de C., ex partisano procedente de la ciudad de Parma, sera el encargado de llevar a cabo la investigacion y de rasgar con su empeño el silencio plomizo de toda una sociedad. Sus lucidas pesquisas tal vez le lleven a un entramado que cabria calificar de mafioso.

¿Cuántos muertos cuesta ocultar la corrupción y los juegos del Poder?«El fiscal Varga andaba metido en el proceso Reis, que duraba ya casi un mes y se habría arrastrado al menos otros dos, cuando en

Donde impera el miedo, todo el mundo calla: la novela más célebre de Leonardo Sciascia.En la plaza de un pequeño pueblo siciliano, Salvatore Colasberna, socio de una pequeña empresa contratista y antiguo albañil, es asesinado cuando esta a punto de subir al autobus que se dirige a Palermo. Los pasajeros del autobus, aterrados, se apresuran a huir, y nadie ha visto nada, o eso dicen. Pero las circunstancias de su muerte parecen cada vez mas complejas y puede que la misteriosa desaparicion del campesino Mendolia guarde relacion con el caso. Un joven capitan de los carabineros de C., ex partisano procedente de la ciudad de Parma, sera el encargado de llevar a cabo la investigacion y de rasgar con su empeño el silencio plomizo de toda una sociedad. Sus lucidas pesquisas tal vez le lleven a un entramado que cabria calificar de mafioso.

Publicado por primera vez en 1958, y de nuevo en 1960 con la añadidura del relato «El antimonio», Los tíos de Sicilia es la obra en la que Sciascia alcanza su plena madurez como escritor y en la que

Una historia sencilla es lo que promete el título de este libro… pero no hay nada más alejado de la realidad. Una enigmática llamada a la comisaría de policía de una pequeña ciudad de la isla de Sici

The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconstancy. The four novellas in Sicilian Uncles, originally published in 1958, are political thrillers of a kind - the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions about ideology and history are lost in mirth, suffering and abandoned innocence. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1848. These occasions and their consequences are registered in the lives of Sciascia's wonderfully drawn characters. Each has voice, wit and a private history which opens out onto the wider circumstances of his time.

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this string of murders an individual vendetta or a more sinister plot? The charming Inspector Rogas is determined to find out. The pursuit of truth and justice are Rogas's vocation, but his work is frustrated by a system which defies his understanding. He needs a key, a way in, a map, and he is sure that his chief suspect Cres can provide it...The book, written in 1971, uncannily prefigures the Red Brigade's subsequent killing of magistrates and the Catholic-Communist pact of the late 1970s in Italy. Developed under Sciascia's hand in the spirit of a parody, Equal Danger has come to be regarded as a wide-ranging political thriller, one of the masterpieces of the genre.

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed, his enquiries are soon blocked off by wall of silence and vested interests; he must work against the very community to save it and expose the truth.The narrative moves on two levels: that of the investigator, who reveals a chain of savage crimes; and that of the bystanders and watchers, of those complicit with secret power, whose gossipy, furtive conversations have only one end: to stop the truth coming out. This novel about the mafia is also a mesmerizing demonstration of how that organization sustains itself. It is both a beautifully, tautly written story and a brave act of denunciation.

The Apollo choices have been masterful. The list is thought-provoking, eye-opening, inspired and inspiring' The Big Issue. 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.