Night's Lies - Softcover
In an island fortress-prison, four political prisoners, sentenced to death for plotting against the Bourbon monarchy, spend their last night together awaiting the guillotine, each spinning a web of deception until the shocking end. Reprint.
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Gesualdo Bufalino was born at Comiso, Sicily, in 1920. He studied literature at Catania and Palermo, and was a teacher by profession, turning author only after his retirement in 1976. He started his first novel, The Plague-Sower, in 1950, but it was only in 1981, after taking the discarded manuscript out of the drawer and reworking it, that it was published; it won the Premio Campiello. This and other works, including Blind Argus ("a construct of time and memory, artful and full of delight" Scotsman) on which the translator, Patrick Creagh, has won the John Florio Prize. With this novel, Night's Lies, the author won Italy's top literary award, the Premio Strega.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
Original Language: Italian
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- PublisherHarvill Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1860461107
- ISBN 13 9781860461101
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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