Andrea Camilleri Lot 16 Inspector Montalbano Shape of Water to Riccardino

Description: 16 Inspector Montalbano Mystery Paperbacksby Andrea CamilleriThis is a lot of 16 books (14 novels and 2 story collections) featuring Salvo Montalbano, a police inspector in Sicily, Italy. This is one of my favorite series and I enjoy its very human main character, the interesting setting and the flashes of humor. Included are (dates are of first publication):The Shape of Water (1994) The Terra-Cotta Dog (1996) The Voice of the Violin (1997) The Excursion to Tindari (2000) The Smell of the Night (2001)The Paper Moon (2005) The Wings of the Sphinx (2006)A Beam of Light (2012)A Voice in the Night (2012)A Nest of Vipers (2013)The Other End of the Line (2016)The Sicilian Method (2020)The Cook of the Halcyon (2021)Riccardino (2021)Death at Sea: Montalbano’s Early Cases (2014) [8 Montalbano Stories]Montalbano's First Case and other Stories (2016) [21 Montalbano Stories]All are used trade paperbacks in good or better condition with exceptions as noted. Spines are uncreased on almost all books. Covers are uncreased on about a third of the books. There are no marks in the text and few page corner folds. The Terra-Cotta Dog has a wrinkled top corner for the last 50 pages. Four books are ex-library copies with labels on the covers.The last three photos show the Tables of Contents of the story collections. There are no overlaps. Each story appears once only. About the books:==========================================================================================================================This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Salvo Montalbano". Inspector Salvo Montalbano (Italian: commissario Salvo Montalbano) is a fictional detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories.The fractious detective's character and manner encapsulate much of Sicilian mythology and astute detective work. The original books are written in a mixture of Italian, strict Sicilian, and a Sicilianized Italian.Although the Inspector Montalbano series of novels are staged in the Sicilian context, Camilleri uncompromisingly confronts many contemporary political and social problems. The novels were translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. The translation of the Montalbano novels started only after five novels had already been published in Italian and gained popularity among the Italian-speaking public. Sartarelli has attempted to maintain the mixture of Italian and Sicilian language in the dialogues. In addition, he has added notes at the end of each of the novels, which give short explanations regarding many of the peculiarities of Sicilian and Italian society depicted in the novels.The name Montalbano is a homage to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán; the similarities between Montalbán's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are remarkable. Both writers make great play of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.Inspector Montalbano is an engaging hero – honest, decent and loyal. He has his own way of doing things, and his superiors regard him as something of a loose cannon. One of the strengths of the novels is Montalbano's ability to navigate through a murky world, a world of shady connections and favours owed and owing, without compromising himself beyond what he can live with. There is a great deal of humour in his character, such as his unconditional love for silence while enjoying a good meal, but the primary subtext is hard criticism of the social and political situation of both the Sicilian and Italian contexts. In fact, Camilleri has said that social commentary "...was always my aim. In many crime novels, the events seem completely detached from the economic, political and social context in which they occur. [...] In my books, I deliberately decided to smuggle into a detective novel a critical commentary on my times. This also allowed me to show the progression and evolution in the character of Montalbano." As the head of the Vigàta police precinct, Montalbano is balancing between the demands of his superiors and the realities of local crime and life in general. In fact, a determining factor of his success as a Sicilian policeman seems to be his ability to bridge between different cultures. There is the "northern" force, coming from Milan that attempts to standardize regulations and increase transparency. On the opposite side is the particularistic "southern" culture with complex webs of relationships that affect the way things are done. Montalbano excels at balancing between these two, while being true to his principles. ========================================================================================================================== Shipping to U.S. addresses will by Media Mail (upgrade to Priority Mail available upon request and payment of extra cost). I'm mailing from the East Coast and Media Mail usually takes from 5 to 10 days to the West Coast but can occasionally take longer. Alaska and Hawaii longer still. Please take that into consideration. I no longer ship internationally - rates are too high to make it practical. You must have a U.S. address I can mail to.Combined Shipping OfferI am happy to offer a combined shipping discount reflecting my actual shipping savings when you buy multiple items from me and make one combined payment. If you want to know the amount of the discount before buying, please contact me. 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