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Novels set in Sicily. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. G. The Godfather novels (6 P, 3 F) I. Inspector Montalbano ...
In 2012, The Guardian named it as one of "the 10 best historical novels". [2] The novel was made into an award-winning 1963 film of the same name, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon. Tomasi was the last in a line of minor princes in Sicily.
The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Marquis Mazzini's daughters, Emilia and Julia, are beautiful and accomplished young ladies.
Although the Inspector Montalbano series of novels is set in Sicily, Camilleri uncompromisingly confronts many contemporary political and social problems. The novels have been translated into a number of languages.
The Sicilian is a novel by American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984 by Random House Publishing Group (ISBN 0-671-43564-7), it is based on the life of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano. It is set in the same universe as Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather (1969), and contains characters from The Godfather. [1]
A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels.
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions is the first of five books written by Mario Giordano in the Auntie Poldi Adventure Series. It was published in German in 2014 and translated into English by John Brownjohn in 2018. It was the first of Giordano's novels to be translated into English. [1]
The Voice of the Violin (Italian: La voce del violino) is a 1997 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2003 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the fourth novel of the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series .
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