- Murder, Investigation, Salvo Montalbano (Fictitious character), Fiction
An unidentified corpse is found near Vigàta, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143120131
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Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer. Originally from Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. Camilleri also worked on several TV productions, such as Inspector Maigret with Gino Cervi. In 1977 he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years. In 1978 Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Th
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