Equal Danger (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Sciascia, Leonardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590170628 ISBN 13: 9781590170625

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 2003

Synopsis

District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolution—or anything? Who is doing what to whom?

Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) was born in Racamulto, Sicily. Starting in the 1950s, he established himself in Italy as a novelist and essayist, and also as a controversial commentator on political affairs. Among his many other books are Salt on the Wound, a biography of a Sicilian town, The Council of Egypt, an historical novel, and Todo Modo, a book in a genre that Sciascia could be said to have invented: the metaphysical mystery.

Carlin Romano is a critic at large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle. He is also the author of America the Philosophical, and divides his time between teaching at Ursinus College and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590170628
• ISBN 13: 9781590170625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152