az- To Each His Own -by Leonardo Sciascia, trans Adrienne Foulke, intro W.S. Di Piero | New York Review Books Classics, (Oct 2000)

The first step -- since rain always falls on wet ground -- was to round up everyone with a prison record.

The dead are dead; help the living.


a mafia story.
mafia ~ an ethos of silence, reserve, deception.