![]() The matter once again gets to Rome and into Parliament with one senior Christian Democrat maintaining that there is no such thing as the Mafia. With various false leads and other witnesses killed, Bellodi gets nearer to the crime, even interviewing and detaining the local Mafia boss. Another potential witness is killed but the witness’s widow is able to point him to the killer. Bellodi faces a wall of silence but persists, even when politicians in Rome try to have him removed. Captain Bellodi, who is not Sicilian, is put in charge of the investigation. He is shot while getting on a bus for Palermo and, by the time the police get there, the few remaining witnesses saw nothing at all. The book starts with the murder not of a union official but of a small-time builder and president of a local building cooperative, Salvatore Colasberna. It is certainly Sciascia’s best-known novel and helped expose not just the Mafia but the link between the Mafia and corrupt politicians, both in Sicily and in Rome. The basis for this novel may well have been the murder of Accursio Miraglia (link in Italian only), an Italian trade unionist killed by the Mafia, because of his support for the poor people of Sicily. Home » Italy » Leonardo Sciascia » Il giorno della civetta (Mafia Vendetta The Day of the Owl) Leonardo Sciascia: Il giorno della civetta (Mafia Vendetta The Day of the Owl) ![]()
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