LA REGINA DI POMERANIA / THE QUEEN OF POMERANIA AND OTHER VIGATA STORIES

Eight unpublished stories by Camilleri, eight perfect tales that, as always, manage to amaze, move, excite, and make people laugh. Influential characters who smuggle dogs, strange wills, ice cream challenges, clumsy elopements, masquerade balls and living nativity scenes, salons with the classic three-legged table to summon unlikely spirits: all against the scenic backdrop of Camilleri’s Sicily, made up of aristocratic circles, squares frequented by strange characters, sunny beaches, and infertile lands to be cultivated with toil. The stories take place from 1893 to 1950: Camilleri does not follow a chronological path but rather the one related to the colors of his imagination, to build a mosaic of «rituals, customs, personal and collective behaviors of an era that, although recent, now seems very distant in time».