I The second of two extracts ''fromthenovellabyLeonardo i SCIASCIA, translated by ALFRED ALEXANDER , selected and read by Gabriel Woolf
' ' I was lying face downwards and stretched my left hand, which had fallen asleep, outsidetheshelterthetreeprovided. Suddenly my hand felt
•asiftheairwhichsurrounded it had turned into boiling water ... Four days later I iwas in Valladolid in hospital.
For me the Spanish war was iover.'
,The narrator is a young : Sicilian, and fighting in the civil war has led him to the deepest personal re-appraisal. ProducerRichardwortley