Council of Egypt - Hardcover

Sciascia, Leonardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856357405 ISBN 13: 9780856357404

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

To better his position during the time of the French Revolution, an unscrupulous priest, Vella, forges an Arabic manuscript justifying baronial privilege, and what follows are the terrifying consequences of reform gone awry

About this title

Review:

'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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0856357405
• ISBN 13: 9780856357404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220