Una storia semplice (A Simple Story) is a short novel by Leonardo Sciascia.
It is inspired by a real event, i.e. the theft of the Caravaggio Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, which happened in 1969.
[3] Una storia semplice appeared as A Straightforward Tale in 1991, together with two other novels translated by Joseph Farrell, in the Carcanet The Knight and Death, & Other Stories volume.
The most recent edition appeared in 2003 at Granta, as part of The Knight and Death & One Way Another volume (republished in 2014).
In 2010, a small London-based publisher, Hesperus Press, had the novel retranslated by Howard Curtis.