The Council of Egypt

by Leonardo Sciascia

Book Overview

The place: Palermo, 1783. The barons reject the reforms of the principled viceroy Caracciolo, pursuing their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And porcine abbot Vella, forty years old, is drawn like a fly to the sweetmeats of their society. How can he achieve the lavish security of an aristocrat, without any aristocratic gifts of his own?
With a novelist's invention he forges an ancient Arabic chronicle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185754434X
• ISBN13: 9781857544343
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Carcanet Fiction
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"