by Andrea Camilleri · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423331574
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«La ópera de Vigàta» is the historical novel by Andrea Camilleri, published by Destino in paperback (239 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Sicily in 1875, it recounts the entanglements unleashed by the prefect's determination to inaugurate the city's theater with an opera, Il birraio di Preston. The locals, wary of the Milanese official, respond with schemes and resistance: a tragicomedy of manners about a traditional society facing the models of northern Europe.
La ópera de Vigàta was published in Spanish in 1999 and is part of Camilleri's narrative cycle about nineteenth-century Sicily; the original title is Il birraio di Preston.
Recommended for readers aged 12 and up who enjoy historical fiction and humor.
Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.
