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The Day of the Owl is a novel by Leonardo Sciascia, completed in 1960 and first published in 1961 by Einaudi publishing house.

is the first novel "yellow" Sciascia, published in 1961, which includes, among others, the merit of setting up the first work of fiction aimed at a wide audience and focusing on the theme of the mafia, criminal phenomenon that political power tended then to ignore and which literature had hitherto provided at most a representation of apologetics. In

Sicily a "metaphor for the world," a police captain, Bellodi, investigates the murder of a builder and that of a farmer executed as a witness to the escape of one of the assassins ...

This is the trailer for the film of the same name directed by Damiano Damiani with Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero and we will see after reading the novel:

Full text of "The Day of owl "in pdf format

audiobook in mp3 produced by RAI-Radio3 (February 2009): Toni Servillo reads" The Day of the Owl "