The swan
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sebastiano Vassalli ; translated from the Italian by Emma Rose
Publisher: Harvill Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781860462993; 9781860463006
Subjects: Fiction; History; Translations into English; Mafia; Italian fiction
Work titles: Cigno
Description: A satirical portrait of a 19th century Mafia don. He is Raffaele Palizzolo, a dandy with pretensions to culture and civility. But when an Italian bank official gets in his way he behaves like a hood, ordering him to be killed.