Andrea Camilleri - The Other End of the Line
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Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series
Camilleris Inspector Montalbano mysteries might sell like hotcakes in Europe, but these world-weary crime stories were unknown here until the oversight was corrected (in Stephen Sartarellis salty translation) by the welcome publication of The Shape of Water... This savagely funny police procedural... prove[s] that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English.
The New York Times Book Review
Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa Nostra, Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like Western Attitudes Toward Death as unflinchingly as he can pore over crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous lunch of shrimp with lemon wedges and oil as gracefully as he dodges advances from attractive women.
Los AngelesTimes
[Camilleris mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytellingand Salvo Montalbano, one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction.
USAToday
Like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade, Montalbano is the kind of guy who cant stay out of trouble... Still, deftly and lovingly translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Camilleri makes it abundantly clear that under the gruff, sardonic exterior our inspector has a heart of gold, and that any outburst, fumbles, or threats are made only in the name of pursuing truth.
The Nation
Camilleri can do a characters whole backstory in half a paragraph.
The New Yorker
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A PENGUIN MYSTERY
Elvira Giorgianni
THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
Andrea Camilleri, a bestselling author in Italy and Germany, is the author of the popular Inspector Montalbano mystery series as well as historical novels that take place in nineteenth-century Sicily. His books have been made into Italian TV shows and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potters Field, won the Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Stephen Sartarelli is an award-winning translator and the author of three books of poetry.
Hunting Season
The Brewer of Brewston
Montalbanos First Case and Other Stories
THE INSPECTOR MONTALBANO SERIES
The Shape of Water
The Terra-Cotta Dog
The Snack Thief
Voice of the Violin
Excursion to Tindari
The Smell of the Night
Rounding the Mark
The Patience of the Spire
The Paper Moon
August Heat
The Wings of the Sphinx
The Track of Sand
The Potters Field
The Age of Doubt
The Dance of the Seagull
Treasure Hunt
Angelicas Smile
Game of Mirrors
A Beam of Light
A Voice in the Night
A Nest of Vipers
The Pyramid of Mud
Death at Sea
The Overnight Kidnapper
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Copyright 2016 by Sellerio Editore
Translation copyright 2019 by Stephen Sartarelli
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Originally published in Italian as Laltro capo del filo by Sellerio Editore, Palermo.
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Names: Camilleri, Andrea, author. | Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954 translator.
Title: The other end of the line / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Other titles: Laltro capo del filo. English
Identifiers: LCCN 2019027158 (print) | LCCN 2019027159 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143133773 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525505617 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PQ4863.A3894 A6913 2019 (print) | LCC PQ4863.A3894 (ebook) | DDC 853/.914dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019027158
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019027159
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover art: Andy Bridge
Cover design: Paul Buckley
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They were sitting out on Livias little balcony in Boccadasse in silence, enjoying the cool evening air.
Livia had been in a bad mood all day, as was always the case when Montalbano was about to return home to Vigta.
Out of the blue Livia, who was barefoot, said:
Would you do me a favor and get my slippers? My feet are cold. I guess Im just getting old.
The inspector gawked at her.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Youre starting to age from the feet up?
Why, is there a law against that?
No, but I thought it was some other body parts that started aging first.
Cut the shit with your foul mouth, said Livia.
Montalbano balked.
Why are you talking like that?
Ill talk however I feel like talking! Is that okay with you?
Anyway, I said nothing foul. The body parts I was referring to are, I dunno, the eyes, the ears...
Are you going to get me those slippers or not?
Where are they?
Where do you think they are? Right beside the bed. The ones that look like cats.
Montalbano got up and headed for the bedroom.
Those slippers no doubt kept her feet nice and warm, but he hated them, because they looked like two long-haired white cats with black tails. Naturally, they were nowhere to be seen.
Surely they must be under the bed.
The inspector crouched down, thinking:
The back! Thats another body part that gives you the first warning signs of aging!
He reached out and started feeling around with one hand.
It came up against a furry slipper and was about to grab it when a sharp pain took him by surprise.
Jerking his hand back, he noticed he had a deep scratch on the back of it that was even bleeding a little.
Could there possibly be a real cat under there?
But Livia didnt own any cats.
So he turned on the lamp on the bedside table, grabbed it, and shone its light under the bed, to see what it was that had scratched him.
He couldnt believe his eyes.
One of the two slippers had remained a slipper, but the other one had turned into a cat, a cat cat, and was now glaring at him threateningly, ears pressed against its head and hackles raised.
How could this be?
He suddenly felt furious.
And he got up, set down the lamp, went into the bathroom, opened the medicine chest, and disinfected his scratch with a bit of rubbing alcohol.
Moments later he was back out on the balcony and sat down without a word.
So where are my slippers? asked Livia.
You can go and get them yourself, if you have the courage.
Glancing at him scornfully, Livia shook her head as if in commiseration, got up, and went into the apartment.
Montalbano contemplated the gash on his hand. The blood had clotted, but the scratch was deep.
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