Montalbano dreams that he is inside a painting by Rousseau. He is, along with his beloved Livia, at dawn in a forest in Paradise. The visitors recognize the place thanks to a sign written in charcoal. They are naked. However, they wear the hypocritical fig leaf made of plastic.
The harmony of Paradise, the absence of filth and violence is an artistic lie. It does not belong to the real world. Nor to dreams. Yet, even in the blind and crude reality, the sweetness of the delicate song of the paradisiacal bird that jumped under the painted branches or from the branches he had dreamed of may survive.
Montalbano woke up to the whistling of a kind vagabond singing the tune of the song Il cielo in una stanza – his whistling covered the sound of the storm that had broken out...
Manufacturer
Specifications
- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- Un covo di vipere
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Crime
- Subtitle
- A case for Inspector Montalbano
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Release Date
- 5/2016
- Publication Date
- 2016
- Dimensions
- 12x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601667881
Additional Specifications
- Series
- Inspector Montalbano
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