by Sebastiano Vassalli · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860463006
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«The Swan» is the satirical novel by Sebastiano Vassalli, published by Harvill Press in paperback (180 pages, in English).
In late nineteenth-century Sicily, Raffaele Palizzolo, a deputy and dandy nicknamed «Il Cigno», orders the murder of the director of the Bank of Sicily, who stands in the way of his ambitions. The novel portrays the impunity of the mafia and the fear that erases witnesses.
The work was published in an English translation by Emma Rose; the Italian original «Il Cigno» appeared in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about the Sicilian mafia and nineteenth-century Italy.
Sebastiano Vassalli was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel The Italian (L'italiano).
