The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Completed in 1960 and then

Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB

Zuleikha is exiled to Siberia and forced to leave behind everything she knows

becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organisation

a teenage student with her widowed father

is the perfect course for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners

The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Completed in 1960 and thenHere are some of Sciascia's greatest stories brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board a ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a