- Published: 02/01/2014
- ISBN: 9781847089298
- 129x20mm
- 176 pages
The Moro Affair
Leonardo Sciascia
Translated by Sacha Rabinovitch
On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March they said he would be tried in a ‘people’s court of justice’. Seven weeks later Moro’s body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In this book, Leonardo Sciasica, a master of detective fiction, untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.
£8.99
The greatest compliment one can pay this fascinating book is to say that it reads like a fable about power anywhere in the world
Independent
Sciascia's perceptive treatment of this horrible business brings out the black comedy of Moro's plight and he draws on Pirandello, Borges and Foucault in a brilliant examination of the nature of rhetoric and power
Sunday Times
The Moro Affair is at the heart of Sciascia's public writings... a dazzling piece of invective... [Moro] will be remembered largely as the subject of this great master's greatest polemic