Centuria
by Giorgio Manganelli | 
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino |
Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City
by Italo Calvino | 
The Watcher and Other Stories
by Italo Calvino | 
Conversations In Sicily
by Elio Vittorini | 
The Moon and the Bonfire
by Cesare Pavese | 
Under the Jaguar Sun
by Italo Calvino | 
To Each his Own
by Leonardo Sciascia | 
Equal Danger
by Leonardo Sciascia |
The Nonexistent Knight
by Italo Calvino | 
The Day of the Owl
by Leonardo Sciascia |
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda | 
Adam, One Afternoon
by Italo Calvino | 
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino | 
Ocean Sea
by Alessandro Baricco | 
Sicilian Uncles
by Leonardo Sciascia | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intellect with a street fighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.