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Title: Council of Egypt, the
Author: SCIASCIA LEONARDO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2017
Imprint: HEAD OF ZEUS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
A tale of power, corruption and forgery set in a Sicily ripe for reform. 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.
ISBN: 9781784978037
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm