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I feel like Italians are better known for fashion and food than for their fiction. I did enjoy this spare, oddly poetic and mostly-dialogue 1960s detective novel about mafia killings in Sicily, but I couldn't help daydreaming hungrily about clothes, art, and sex. I know actually nothing about Fascism or the Mafia, so a lot of this book's context was too obscure for me, though in sort of a seductive, cool, Italian way... In the future I'd check out another Leonardo Sciascia, but I might be more likely to read a nonfiction history of twentieth-century Italian history and politics, especially if someone would give me a specific suggestion.

Now I want to go to Italy, but my clothes suck too bad.



I know this review doesn't really say much about the book, but that's because, for once, I don't have much to say about it.]]>