by Leonardo Sciascia · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483830086
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La desaparición de Majorana» is the philosophical mystery novel by Leonardo Sciascia, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
In 1938, the Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana disappears after embarking from Naples to Palermo; a letter from him points to suicide, but the official investigations are unconvincing. Sciascia reconstructs his life and personality to propose another hypothesis: that the young scientist, aware of the destructive potential of his discoveries on atomic energy in the Europe of Hitler and Mussolini, chose flight and silence. A philosophical mystery novel portraying a genius divided between ethics and science.
Volume 637 of the Andanzas collection from Tusquets. Translated from the Italian by Juan Manuel Salmerón Arjona. Published on July 1, 2007.
For readers of crime fiction and non-fiction narrated with tension, interested in science and twentieth-century history.
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.
