{"product_id":"equal-danger-isbn-9781590170625","title":"Equal Danger","description":"District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolution—or anything? Who is doing what to whom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEqual Danger\u003c\/i\u003e is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.Among Sicilian writers Leonardo Sciascia is supreme. His  books are both lucid and mysterious; they address complex, public  subjects with clarity and elegance; they move with the pace of  thrillers, and have the resonance of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e— Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The accessibility and beauty of Sciascia’s prose suggest he wanted it  to be an antidote to the silent complicity and self—deception  confronting both him and his heroes. When he wrote about crime, he was  also writing about truth, solitude and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003eLeonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) was born in Racamulto, Sicily. Starting in  the 1950s, he established himself in Italy as a novelist and essayist,  and also as a controversial commentator on political affairs. Among his  many other books are \u003ci\u003eSalt on the Wound,\u003c\/i\u003e a biography of a Sicilian town, \u003ci\u003eThe Council of Egypt,\u003c\/i\u003e an historical novel, and \u003ci\u003eTodo Modo,\u003c\/i\u003e a book in a genre that Sciascia could be said to have invented: the metaphysical mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarlin Romano is a critic at large for \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica the Philosophical\u003c\/i\u003e, and divides his time between teaching at Ursinus College and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301859512549,"sku":"NP9781590170625","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170625.jpg?v=1767726324","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/equal-danger-isbn-9781590170625","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}