After The shape of the water and The terracotta dog this and 'the third "yellow" by Andrea Camilleri to have starring Inspector Montalbano, Commissioner stationed in Vigata "The nearest 'invented in Sicily more' typical '. Montalbano this time - also concerned to avoid promotion to assistant chief, which would mean compromise and bureaucratic renunciation of one's whims investigation - suspected the existence of a link between two violent deaths: that of a Tunisian embarked on a trawler in Mazara del Vallo and that of a merchant Vigata stabbed inside an elevator. For Camilleri and the Sicily of today 'source of inspiration and discovery, of plots of detective stories and observations on a scary costume maybe but certainly not static, especially the suggested language, never spoken a trivial it' common knowledge. All of the other irritating metaphors and prohibits use by men of intelligence with which servezi Montalbano is hard to face: the most powerful figures of speech 'unable to hold the discourse of "reason of state" when now, as noted by our commissioner, "basically serve two different states."
(Andrea Camilleri, Sellerio )
My opinion: The reason you hear Montalbano, when dealing with certain realities ', and' hard for me not to share his thoughts. For this, and I 's so nice and so I also find this book particularly interesting Camilleri.