LE PECORE E IL PASTORE / THE SHEEP AND THE SHEPERD

Summer 1945. The Bishop of Agrigento Monsignor Peruzzo is mortally wounded by two bullets. To save the bishop’s life ten young nuns offer theirs to God, letting themselves die. Camilleri discovers this story almost by accident, from a footnote. And with the determination of the detective he «goes back up the story. He pursues faint or erased leads. He conducts a painful and tormenting investigation. He interrogates historical sources and literary documents». The narrative essay includes distant times. And topographies.
«Stony mountains, hermitages, hostile and inaccessible places. Physical spaces are transformed into geometric archetypes. […] The temperature of the writing changes gradation. It lights up in the sepia of remembrance. It fades into the black and white of the inquiry».
Salvatore Silvano Nigro