![]() ![]() ![]() The murdered man is the owner of a small construction company who was too honest to cooperate with the mafia (his brothers and co-owners of course also know nothing), and he has been killed with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun that was the typical weapon of the mafia. ![]() "Has there been a shooting?" the fritter-seller asks quasi innocent (although the gun went off more or less next to his ears), like all the others pretending not to have seen anything in order not to become involved. When the carabinieri arrive, they can only question a fritter-seller, who stood near the spot where the man was murdered. The bus driver tries hard not to notice anything, all the passengers who are already in the bus, quickly get off and disappear. ![]() The book's final aim is a moral one, rather than pure entertainment.Ī man runs to catch a bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. His book, written around 1960, is an indictment of the activities of the Italian mafia on Sicily and the roaring silence which at that time protected the gangster organization. But appearances can be deceptive - this is not a genre novel and the author Leonardo Sciascia (1921-89 pronounced "sha-sha") far transcends the bounds of the usual crime novel. On the surface, the Italian novel The Day of the Owl is a first-class thriller, a police procedural in which a murder is solved. ![]()
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