The Day of Judgment (Apollo Classics) (UK Edition)

At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, DonSebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully foldedthe newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied upthe little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to theground floor...Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolatedSardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don SebastianoSanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunesof this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.