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The Council of Egypt

The Council of Egypt

Leonardo Sciascia
Barcode 9781784978037
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Release Date: 01/12/2016

Genre: Fiction
Label: Apollo Library
Contributors: Michael Schmidt (Introduction by)
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages: 224

A tale of power, corruption and forgery set in a Sicily ripe for reform.

. The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicoloured feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old nautical map, blew black dust from the leather cover, and, with a shiver of what in the circumstances seemed delicate trepidation, laid the volume open on the table. Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that rewrites Sicilian history.

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