Mafia Vendetta
Edition: First UK Edition
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears, minor soiling to edges; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: gifter's inscription on fep. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: small book seller sticker on front pastedown.
Originally published in Italian as Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), Mafia Vendetta is a gripping crime novel set in the sun-scorched landscape of Sicily, where the tentacles of the Mafia reach into every corner of daily life. The story chronicles the investigation of Captain Bellodi, a northern Italian police officer who arrives in Sicily determined to solve a brazen daylight murder, only to find himself entangled in a web of silence, corruption, and omertà . Sciascia presents a razor-sharp portrait of institutional complicity, where justice is perpetually strangled by political power and criminal allegiance. Written with sardonic wit and unflinching moral clarity, the novel argues that the Mafia is not merely an organisation but a deeply embedded cultural and political system. A landmark of Italian literature, it remains one of the most powerful and enduring fictional indictments of organised crime ever written.
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears, minor soiling to edges; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: gifter's inscription on fep. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: small book seller sticker on front pastedown.
Originally published in Italian as Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), Mafia Vendetta is a gripping crime novel set in the sun-scorched landscape of Sicily, where the tentacles of the Mafia reach into every corner of daily life. The story chronicles the investigation of Captain Bellodi, a northern Italian police officer who arrives in Sicily determined to solve a brazen daylight murder, only to find himself entangled in a web of silence, corruption, and omertà . Sciascia presents a razor-sharp portrait of institutional complicity, where justice is perpetually strangled by political power and criminal allegiance. Written with sardonic wit and unflinching moral clarity, the novel argues that the Mafia is not merely an organisation but a deeply embedded cultural and political system. A landmark of Italian literature, it remains one of the most powerful and enduring fictional indictments of organised crime ever written.
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Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears, minor soiling to edges; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: gifter's inscription on fep. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: small book seller sticker on front pastedown.
Originally published in Italian as Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), Mafia Vendetta is a gripping crime novel set in the sun-scorched landscape of Sicily, where the tentacles of the Mafia reach into every corner of daily life. The story chronicles the investigation of Captain Bellodi, a northern Italian police officer who arrives in Sicily determined to solve a brazen daylight murder, only to find himself entangled in a web of silence, corruption, and omertà . Sciascia presents a razor-sharp portrait of institutional complicity, where justice is perpetually strangled by political power and criminal allegiance. Written with sardonic wit and unflinching moral clarity, the novel argues that the Mafia is not merely an organisation but a deeply embedded cultural and political system. A landmark of Italian literature, it remains one of the most powerful and enduring fictional indictments of organised crime ever written.
