The Book of Sofia : Petersfriends.com : 9798987965528 : 18 Sep 2023 : Sicily, 1973 In the heat of the day, the old man walked through the bead curtain in the doorway of Vittorio Rizzo's small bar, paused for a moment to accustom his eyes to the incongruous darkness of the place, went up to the bar, ordered a café 'ristretto', drank it, paid and left to go the few metres down the narrow street to Ciccio Guglielmo's general supply store, where, since this worthy was in Rizzo's along with most of the adult male population of our village, it was his wife, Mirella, who sold the stranger two 25-kilo sacks of cement, which he picked up, one in each hand, much as if they were filled with feathers, thanked her and walked back, past the bar, out of the village, into the baking countryside. In a silk shirt. Nothing caused more comment. Over the ten-odd years before the murders, once or twice a week, we would see the old man in his silk shirt, his long hair sun-bleached white, held in place by a