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Night's Lies
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Night's Lies
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Gesualdo Bufalino
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Translated by Patrick Creagh
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:160 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781846555541
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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| Imprint |
The Harvill Press
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| Publication Date |
5 April 2011 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, discussing their lives, old hopes and ambitions.
Author Biography
Gesualdo Bufalino was born at Comiso, Sicily, in 1920. He studied literature at Catania and Palermo, and was a teacher by profession, turning author only after his retirement in 1976. He started his first novel, The Plague-Sower, in 1950, but it was only in 1981, after taking the discarded manuscript out of the drawer and reworking it, that it was published; it won the Premio Campiello. This and other works, including Blind Argus ("a construct of time and memory, artful and full of delight" Scotsman) on which the translator, Patrick Creagh, has won the John Florio Prize. With this novel, Night's Lies, the author won Italy's top literary award, the Premio Strega.
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