LE VICHINGHE VOLANTI / THE FLYING VIKINGS AND OTHER VIGATA LOVE STORIES

There are eight short stories, all written in a state of happy and amused creativity. They are from a “sepia” Vigàta, set between 1910 and mid-century, almost. And they include an investigation by the discreet Inspector Bennici into the chronicle of two picturesque ghosts who had stirred up the town council, the townspeople, regional and national newspapers. Was this the beginning of a haunting?Camilleri is a storyteller, no one like him can captivate readers with his tales, inexhaustible as those of the Thousand and One Nights. Vigàta is the theater where his characters dwell: well-to-do bourgeoisie, naive poor people, men of respect. And above all women; in this collection, in fact, love is the dominant theme, declined in its countless variations from passion to eroticism, from betrayal to Boccaccio situations.