by Leonardo Sciascia · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483107959
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«Una historia sencilla» is the crime novel by Leonardo Sciascia, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
Beneath the appearance of a simple case, an inspector investigates the apparent suicide of a man following a call to the police. The inquiry leads him through a tangle of crimes and corruption in Sicily, with the mafia and drugs always present but never named, in a short tale that gives the reader no respite.
Originally published in Italian as «Una storia semplice» and handed by Sciascia to his editor in 1989, a month before his death. Translation by Carlos Manzano; volume 180 of the Fábula collection.
For readers of crime fiction and twentieth-century Italian literature, interested in a brief work of intense reading.
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
