Stoddart, Toronto, 1999, 1^st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-7737-6068-7.  Trade soft cover, 197 pages.  Unread copy with light edge and cover wear.  English translation by David Homel.  In Sicily, a girl is seduced by the son of her father’s enemy under an olive tree.  ‘… is conceived our hero, Olivo Oliva – part man, part olive, a bastard child who grows up to be a prodigious killer and obsessive artist.  And thus begins a fable that moves from sun-drenched Sicily to mafia-controlled streets of America and back again …’ (from front flap)