The Sacco Gang

Description

Based on a true story, a "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the State and a Mafia empire in 1920s Italy. Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the State. Their lives change radically one morning when their father, Luigi Sacco, receives an anonymous letter from the local Mafia demanding protection money. Luigi tells the police of the extortion letters, but the police don't know what to do: no one in the village has ever dared denounce the Mafia before. From that moment on, the Sacco brothers must defend themselves: from the Mafia and the forces of order, from their collaborators, from traitors, and from the village's leaders, as they are assailed by murder attempts, false accusations, and false testimony. The Sacco Gang is not only a gripping Italian "western," but an indictment of the Mafia's influence and the devastation it wreaks in people's lives.

Andrea Camilleri is widely considered to be one of the greatest living Italian writers. His bestselling Montalbano crime series is published in the UK by Picador. Born in Sicily, Camilleri currently lives in Rome Stephen Sartarelli is a contemporary poet and prize-winning translator. He has written three books of poetry and translated over forty works of fiction and poetry, focusing on French and Italian.

Praise for The Sacco Gang "If history is the story of winners and the powerful, it's not only the fault of historians; the fact is that the traces of the past with which they work--'documents'--are left by those arranging for thier own posterity...Camilleri rebels against this fiction, creating another, more refined and luminous one."--La Repubblica Praise for Andrea Camilleri"The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily."--Donna Leon, author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series "The idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing."--The New York Times"Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator."--The Washington Post Book World Praise for The Sacco Gang -If history is the story of winners and the powerful, it's not only the fault of historians; the fact is that the traces of the past with which they work--'documents'--are left by those arranging for thier own posterity...Camilleri rebels against this fiction, creating another, more refined and luminous one.---La Repubblica Praise for Andrea Camilleri-The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.---Donna Leon, author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series -The idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing.---The New York Times-Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator.---The Washington Post Book World Praise for The Sacco Gang "If history is the story of winners and the powerful, it's not only the fault of historians; the fact is that the traces of the past with which they work--'documents'--are left by those arranging for thier own posterity...Camilleri rebels against this fiction, creating another, more refined and luminous one."--La Repubblica Praise for Andrea Camilleri"The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily."--Donna Leon, author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series "The idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing."--The New York Times"Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator."--The Washington Post Book World