Night's lies

Blurb

Winner of the Strega Prize-a stylish and intriguing novel from Sicily's finest writer since Lampedusa.

In an island fortress-prison four political prisoners, sentenced to death for plotting against the Bourbon monarchy, spend their last night before they go under the guillotine. As they see the scaffold set up in the courtyard, they each search back through their past to find some pattern that will give meaning to the impending sacrifice of their lives. The baron, the soldier, the poet, the student-each has a tale to tell, each has an interest in weaving a web of deception. But who will, at the end, remain trapped in it?