Excursion to Tindari

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Excursion to Tindari
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Italian first edition cover
Author Andrea Camilleri
Original titleLa gita a Tindari
Translator Stephen Sartarelli
Country Italy
Language Italian/Sicilian
Series Inspector Salvo Montalbano, #5
Genre Crime, Mystery novel
PublisherSellerio (ITA)
Viking (US)
Macmillan/Picador (UK)
Publication date
18 February 2000
Published in English
2005
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages304 pp
296 pp (Eng. trans.)
ISBN 0-330-49302-7 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC 62225211
Preceded by The Voice of the Violin  
Followed by The Scent of the Night  

Excursion to Tindari ( Italian: La gita a Tindari) is a 2000 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli.

Contents

It is the fifth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series. In 2006 it was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best translated crime novel of the year. [1]

Plot summary

The story takes place between Vigàta and picturesque site of Tindari, a promontory of historical and archaeological beauty. Montalbano is investigating the mysterious bond that unites a couple and an unrelated man in the same violent death. Thanks to his unique professional insight, and perhaps even more to his feelings as a sensitive man, Montalbano successfully concludes the investigation, moving inbetween the boundaries set by the world of tradition and that of modernity. In his fifties, examining his life and a future that seems to be saturated with senseless technology and hopeless inhumanity, with corruption and globalisation rendering everything shapeless, Montalbano feels out of place and lonely.

Adaptation

It was first adapted for television by RAI with Luca Zingaretti in the TV series Inspector Montalbano . The episode was aired on 9 May 2001. [2]

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References

  1. "The CWA International Dagger". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  2. La gita a Tindari (2001) at IMDb   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg