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Leonardo Sciascia

Born

in Racalmuto, Italy

January 08, 1921

Died

November 20, 1989

Website

http://www.amicisciascia.it/

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Crime

Influences

Stendhal, Luigi Pirandello, Voltaire, Giovanni Verga, Michel de Montai ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 65,259 ratings · 5,023 reviews · 219 distinct works • Similar authors

	Il giorno della civetta 3.72 avg rating — 19,718 ratings — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una storia semplice 3.80 avg rating — 8,918 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia, Adrienne Foulke (Translator), W.S. Di Piero (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 8,020 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La scomparsa di Majorana by Leonardo Sciascia, Lea Ritter Santini (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 5,200 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Todo modo 3.84 avg rating — 2,929 ratings — published 1974 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'affaire Moro 4.04 avg rating — 1,718 ratings — published 1978 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia, Avril Bardoni (Translator), Albert Mobilio (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 1,492 ratings — published 1973 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia, Adrienne Foulke (Translator), Carlin Romano (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 1,379 ratings — published 1971 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Consiglio d'Egitto 3.74 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 1963 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Candido or A Dream Dreamed in Sicily 3.85 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 1977 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl

tags: italy, sicily

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“I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.”
― Leonardo Sciascia

tags: sicily

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“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year...The palm tree line...I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line...It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome...”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl

tags: italy, sicily

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L'affaire Moro di Leonardo Sciascia

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L'Italia degli anni di piombo: 1965-1978 di Indro Montanelli

27 votes, 17.4%

Il miracolo scippato. Le quattro occasioni sprecate della scienza italiana negli anni sessanta di Marco Pivato

26 votes, 16.8%

Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi di Paul Ginsborg

21 votes, 13.5%

Storia d'Italia dal 1861 al 1997 di Denis Mack Smith

15 votes, 9.7%

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