The first of two extracts from the novella by LEONARDO SCIASCIA , translated by ALFRED ALEXANDER , selected and read by Gabriel Woolf
' Sitting on the steps by that church, I began to understand many things about Spain, about Italy and about the whole world and the men who are in it.'
The setting is the Spanish Civil War: the narrator a young Sicilian who previously worked in a sulphur mine. Producer RICHARD WORTLEY