The Brewer of Preston
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Contributors: Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780143121497
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction; History
Work titles: Birraio di Preston
Description: "The New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series brings us back to Vigàta in the nineteenth century for a rip-roaring comic novel. 1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater. The Brewer of Preston, it's called, and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night"--
Notes: Translation from the Italian of: Birraio di Preston.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245).