- Murder, Police, Fiction, Investigation
One night, Inspector Montalbano dreams of a stormy sea, which he knows represents unease and loss of control. The next day, a boat is found in the port of Vigata, and within it, the body of a disfigured corpse.
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143120926
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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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