The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Verlaine is also the poet

Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites

becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organisation

and their neighbour

He works with numbers

Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else

The Wine-Dark Sea - Leonardo Sciascia Verlaine is also the poetHere are some of Sciascia's greatest stories brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board a ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a