Date and time: Tuesday 2 June, 6.30pm
Location: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE
Tickets: £10. Click here to book.
Come and meet the historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead as she and Jonathan Keates discuss her latest book.
In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily: 471 men and 4 women took the stand, accused of horrific crimes. Sitting in the gallery was Leonardo Sciascia. One of the greatest European writers of the twentieth century, he had published the first Mafia novel, The Day of the Owl, in 1961, and was widely seen by Italians as a true moral figure in a country where corruption had seeped into every corner of public and private life.
In A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead charts Sciascia’s life against the rise of the Mafia, and lays out the thrilling and devastating struggle that ensued for Italy’s soul.
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