Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a….

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight..

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all….

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity..

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one n….

Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, lik….

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effe….

Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salut….