Leonardo Sciascia

English Translation : Abdallah Mohamed ben Olman, ambassador of Morocco, is in Palermo in December 1782, because of a storm that has wrecked his ship on the Sicilian coasts. This is the case that gives birth, in the mind of Abbot Vella, Maltese, and charged with showing the ambassador the beauties of Palermo, a bold design: to pass the Arabic manuscript of a....