The Story of the Nose
Descriere
The Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning to discover that his nose has disappeared. Unbeknownst to him, it has mysteriously found its way into a loaf of bread on the barber Yokovlevich's breakfast table. The barber attempts to dispose of it, but when Kovalyov steps out onto the St Petersburg streets, he finds his nose, now the size of a human, wearing a gold-embroidered uniform and travelling around in a carriage...
Andrea Camilleri (born in Sicily in 1925) is a best-selling and prize-winning Italian theatre and television director and author, perhaps most famous for his Inspector Montalbano series of crime novels. Camilleri has won numerous awards in Italy, France and the UK, and his work has been translated into many languages, including French, German and Japanese.
Despre autor
Andrea Calogero Camilleri a fost un scenarist, regizor de teatru și televiziune și scriitor. Personajul cel mai de succes din romanele lui Camilleri este sicilianul Commissario Montalbano, numit astfel după scriitorul spaniol Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Seria Commissario Montalbano a fost tradusă în mai multe limbi și l-a făcut pe Camilleri cunoscut pe plan internațional.