The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries, Book 2)(Library Edition)
Audio CD – Unabridged, January 1, 2007
Description
''Montalbano's deadpan drollery and sharp observations refresh as much for their honesty as their wit. All he wants is a quiet corner and an uninterrupted afternoon.'' -- Kirkus Reviews ''Subtle, sardonic, and molto simpatico: Montalbano is the Latin re-creation of Philip Marlowe, working in a place that manages to be both more and less civilized than Chandler's Los Angeles.'' -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)''In Sicily, where people do things as they please, Inspector Montalbano is a bona fide folk hero.'' -- New York Times Book Review ''Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like Western Attitudes toward Death as unflinchingly as he can pour over crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous lunch . . . as gracefully as he dodged advances from attractive women.'' -- Los Angeles Times ''A deep evocation of the Sicilian temperament, with all its complex darkness and ambiguity, is embodied in Inspector Salvo Montalbano. Camilleri writes in Sicilian dialect, and his translator (Sartarelli) has expertly captured the rhythms and nuances of that tongue in English.'' -- Booklist
Features & Highlights
- [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]
- {Translated by Stephen Sartarelli}[Read by Grover Gardner] Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes.
- The Terra-Cotta Dog
- opens with the inspector's mysterious tête-à-tête with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, in a secret grotto, he finds a harrowing scene: two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II bombardment. From sly comedy at the expense of his fellow policemen to personal soul searching that helps him enter the minds of those he must investigate, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness and imagination coalesce into a unique, unfailing appeal.
