The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Zuleikha is exiled to Siberia

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

a teenage student with her widowed father

becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organisation

Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites

The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Zuleikha is exiled to SiberiaHere 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