by Leonardo Sciascia · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806394615
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«Il mare colore del vino» is the short story collection by Leonardo Sciascia, published by Einaudi in paperback (163 pages, in Italian).
It brings together stories written between 1959 and 1972 in which Sciascia portrays life in Sicily, the complexities of politics and justice, and human contradictions. The author presented them as a kind of compendium of his career; they are texts of concise prose and a critical eye on Italian society.
The collection was first published in 1973 and this Einaudi edition, from 1974, belongs to the Nuovi Coralli series (no. 82).
For readers interested in the twentieth-century Italian short story and in Sciascia's narrative of social and political criticism.
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.
