The pyramid of mud
by Andrea CamilleriIt's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking Inspector Montalbano's beloved hometown.
It is on one of these endless grey days that a man, a Mr Giugiu Nicotra, is found dead, his body discovered i.
- First published
- 2018
- Publishers
- Penguin
- Subjects
- Construction industry·Italian detective and mystery stories·Investigation·Corrupt practices·Murder·Fiction
About Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri (born september 6, 1925 in Porto Empedocle) was an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries.Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. Around this time he joined the Italian Communist Party.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. As a matter of fact, his parents knew Pirandello and were even distant friends, as he tells in his essay on Pirandello "Biography of the changed son". His most famous works, the Montalbano series show many pirandellian elements: for example, the wild olive tree that helps Montalbano think, is on stage in his late work "The giants of the mountain"With RAI, Camilleri 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 Movie Direction, and occupying it for 20 years.In 1978 Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"). This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant amount of popularity.In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel-writing. A new book, La Stagione della Caccia ("The Hunting Season") turned out to be a best-seller.In 1994 Camilleri published the first in a long series of novels: La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water) featured the character of Inspector Montalbano, a fractious Sicilian detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is an homage to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán; the similarities between Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are remarkable. Both writers make great play of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.This feature provides an interesting quirk which has become something of a fad among his readership even in mainland Italy. The TV adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring the perfectly-cast Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity to such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle - on which Vigàta is modelled - took the extraordinary step of changing its official denomination to that of Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on the tourism possibilities thrown up by the author's work.In 1998 Camilleri won the Nino Martoglio International Book Award.Camilleri lived in Rome where he worked as a TV and theatre director. About 10 million copies of his novels have been sold to date, and are becoming increasingly popular in the UK and North America.In addition to the degree of popularity brought him by the novels, in recent months Andrea Camilleri has become even more of a media icon thanks to the parodies aired on an RAI radio show, where popular comedian, TV-host and impression artist Fiorello presents him as a raspy voiced, caustic character, madly in love with cigarettes and smoking (Camilleri is well-known for his love of tobacco).He received an honorary degree from University of Pisa in 2005....
Books
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Andrea Warren
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, charles dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Three Light-Years
Andrea Canobbio
Fragmenta Oratorum Romanorum
Andrea Balbo
Oh My Dog!
Andrea Williams
Footprints in Paradise
Andrea E. Murray
Social Brain
Tracey Camilleri
Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory
Andrea Scarantino
Research on the emotions is proliferating in philosophy and the hard cognitive sciences and has cognate, areas of interest in sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines.
Religious Nationalism in Contemporary South Asia
Andrea Malji
Metamaterials-By-Design
Andrea Alu
Dear God, Can You Hear Me?
Andrea Lindsey
Smut Peddler Presents
Andrea Purcell
National Geographic Readers
Andrea Silen
Where Darkness Blooms
Andrea Hannah
Women Are the Fiercest Creatures
Andrea Dunlop
Again and Again, I Think of You
Andrea Polk
Die Kreuzigung Petri Von Rubens
Andrea Pufke
You Just Need to Believe It
Andrea McLean
Abby the Crabby Tabby
Andrea Lane
Devils and Saints
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Mediterranean Comedy
Andrea Celli
What Witches Wear
Andrea Stein
The True Meaning of Life
Andrea Comparato
Ancient Egypt in Its African Context
Andrea Manzo
Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi 10
Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Reincarnation of a Survivor
Andrea Evans-Dixon
We the Miners
Andrea G. McDowell
Singularites de la France Equinoxiale
Andréa Daher
Pediatric Neuroradiology
Andrea Rossi
This is an update of the in-depth reference textbook of the same title designed as a comprehensive resource on neuroimaging of diseases of the pediatric central nervous system.
Earth X
Anderson, Andrea, Sr.
Hasta su último día…
Andrea Saldaña Rivera
Loretta Little Looks Back
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Pocket Guide to Practical Psychopharmacology
Andrea Fagiolini
Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? junior
Andrea Erne
Converging Empires
Andrea Geiger
Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages
Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
Who Is Your Friend?
Andrea Linnes-Bagley
Yamada's Atlas of Gastroenterology
Michael Camilleri
The 6th edition of yamada's atlas of gastroenterology sees the return of the gold-standard multi-media atlas that provides gastroenterologists with an outstanding visual tool covering all facets of the field.
Transference, Love, Being
Andrea Celenza
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
Andrea Noelani Brower
Enemies to Lovers : Business to Pleasure
Andrea Laurence
Icebound
Andrea Pitzer
Art Therapy Coloring Book
Andrea Sargent
China's Foreign Policy
Andrea Benvenuti
Super Simple Science Experiments for Curious Kids
Andrea Scalzo Yi
Oradour et les Allemands
Andrea Erkenbrecher
Die quellen und darstellungen zur zeitgeschichte sind das flagschiff der publikationen des instituts f�r zeitgeschichte m�nchen-berlin.
Bone Shard Emperor
Andrea Stewart
Rethinking Orality II
Andrea Ercolani
Dinámicas Familiares de Cuidado en Los Barrios Populares de Argentina
Andrea Monje Silva
Redemptus Ab Hostibus
Andrea Rodeghiero
Rerouting
Andrea Stein
What Witches Wear
Andrea Stein
Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages
Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
Uphill Both Ways
Andrea Lani
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