{"product_id":"hunting-season-isbn-9780143126539","title":"Hunting Season","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom internationally bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, a brilliant, bawdy comedy that will surprise even the most die-hard Montalbano fans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1880s Vigàta, a stranger comes to town to open a pharmacy. Fofò turns out to be the son of a man legendary for having a magic garden stocked with plants, fruits, and vegetables that could cure any ailment—a man who was found murdered years ago. Fofò escaped, but now has reappeared looking to make his fortune and soon finds himself mixed up in the dealings of a philandering local marchese set on producing an heir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absurd, quirky murder mystery that recalls the most hilarious and farcical scenes of Shakespeare and \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHunting Season\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce American readers to a refreshing new aspect of one of our best-loved writers.Praise for \u003ci\u003eHunting Season\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Entertaining and every so often moving....The comedy is broader, bawdier and darker in \u003ci\u003eHunting Season.\u003c\/i\u003e”—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] darkly comic Italian revenge noir...the fiendishly clever plot builds with a cool undercurrent of suspense....A deftly lean, addictive mystery.”—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] bawdy little gem from the author of the Inspector Montalbano series.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[Camilleri] turns his hand to historical fiction: the result is another success....It would take a saint not to crack a smile at the antics that take place in these pages.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  “Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano mysteries might sell like hotcakes in Europe, but these world-weary crime stories were unknown here until the oversight was corrected (in Stephen Sartarelli’s salty translation) by the welcome publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e…This savagely funny police procedural…prove[s] that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  “Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa Nostra, Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like \u003ci\u003eWestern Attitudes Toward Death\u003c\/i\u003e as unflinchingly as he can pore over crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous lunch of shrimp with lemon and oil as gracefully as he dodges advances from attractive women.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Camilleri’s mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling—and Salvo Montalbano, one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction…Montalbano is a delightful creation, an honest man on Siciliy’s mean streets.”—\u003ci\u003eUSA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade, Montalbano is the kind of guy who can’t stay out of trouble…Still, deftly and lovingly translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Camilleri makes it abundantly clear that under the gruff, sardonic exterior our inspector has a heart of gold, and that any outburst, fumbles, or threats are made only in the name of pursuing truth.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Camilleri can do a character’s whole backstory in half a paragraph.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  “Subtle, sardonic, and \u003ci\u003emolto simpatico\u003c\/i\u003e: Montalbano is the Latin re-creation of Philip Marlowe, working in a place that manages to be both more and less civilized than Chandler’s Los Angeles.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Wit and delicacy and the fast-cut timing of farce play across the surface…but what keeps it from frothing into mere intellectual charm is the persistent, often sexually bemused Montalbano, moving with ease along zigzags created for him, teasing out threads of discrepancy that unravel the whole.”—\u003ci\u003eHouston\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Sublime and darkly humorous…Camilleri balances his hero’s personal and professional challenges perfectly and leaves the reader eager for more.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The Montalbano mysteries offer \u003ci\u003ecose dolci\u003c\/i\u003e to the world-lit lover hankering for a whodunit.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “In Sicily, where people do things as they please, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is a bona fide folk hero.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The books are full of sharp, precise characterizations and with subplots that make Montalbano endearingly human…Like the antipasti that Montalbano contentedly consumes, the stories are light and easily consumed, leaving one eager for the next course.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The reading of these little gems is fast and fun every step of the way.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This series is distinguished by Camilleri’s remarkable feel for tragicomedy, expertly mixing light and dark in the course of producing novels that are both comforting and disturbing.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Camilleri\u003c\/b\u003e, a mega-bestseller in Italy and Germany, is the author of the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, as well as historical novels which take place in nineteenth-century Siciliy, including \u003ci\u003eHunting Season\u003c\/i\u003e. The Montalbano series has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television. \u003ci\u003eThe Potter's Field\u003c\/i\u003e, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers Association's International Dagger Award for the best crime novel translated into English, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Sartarelli\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator and the author of three books of poetry.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301274079461,"sku":"NP9780143126539","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143126539.jpg?v=1767729546","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hunting-season-isbn-9780143126539","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}