The Day of Judgment

Zusatztext One of the great twentieth-century novels ... The book's saturnine vision of Sardinian life, heavy with nostalgia for the past, contributes to an unforgettably powerful epic of war and diaspora' The Tablet . Informationen zum Autor Salvatore Satta (1902–1975) was one of Italy's foremost jurists and the man who rewrote the Italian Penal Code after World War II to rid it of Facism. Following his death, the manuscript for THE DAY OF JUDGMENT was found amongst his papers. It is believed he had been working on it for more than thirty years. Mark Thompson lives in Oxford. He is the author of A Paper House , a much-praised account of the fall of Yugoslavia, and The White War , which tracks the fate of Italy during the first world war. He worked for the UN in the Balkans for much of the 1990s. Klappentext A new edition of the classic Italian novel which was first published posthumously in 1975. With an introduction by Mark Thompson. 'A great European novel.' Susan Sontag Zusammenfassung Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.

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'The Day of Judgment is that now improbable gift, for which one cannot be too thankful: a great European novel' Susan Sontag

Product details

• Authors: Salvatore Satta, SATTA SALVATORE
• Assisted by: Michael Schmidt (Editor), Mark Thompson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.04.2016
• EAN: 9781784975708
• ISBN: 978-1-78497-570-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Apollo; Apollo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary