The Brewer of Preston, Andrea Camilleri
The Brewer of Preston, Andrea Camilleri
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The Brewer of Preston
A Novel

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2014

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

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 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 Vigatese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night.

About Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano mysteries as well as historical novels. His books have been made into television shows in Italy and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potter’s Field, won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily

"Ο ζυθοποιός του Πρέστον" είναι μια όπερα του Λουίτζι Ρίτσι, την οποία επέλεξε ο νομάρχης της σικελικής πόλης Μοντελούζα για να εγκαινιάσει το θέατρο της γειτονικής πόλης Βιγκάτα. Κατά κακή τύχη της όπερας και του θεάτρου του ίδιου, ο νομάρχης δεν είναι Σικελός, αντίθετα είναι από το Βορρά, γεγονός......more

Goodreads review by Tyler

Oh dear, what have I done? One of the responsibilities in my job at the library is to help out the book club that meets once a month. They gave me a list of books they would like to discuss, and I round up copies for them. Sounds easy, but sometimes it's hard finding enough copies available. Such was......more

Goodreads review by KayKay

I love the book in some ways: 1- Ingenious! There are different "chapters" so to speak but these chapters do not need to go by sequence as suggested by the author. Readers could jump around however way they like. I went by the orders as suggested. The fun part about these chapters is that nothing is......more

Quotes

“Fans of Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series will relish this amusing, playful tale.” Publishers Weekly

“Hilarious…Camilleri is a great plotter, and his books are filled with action (mayhem, usually), but the dominant note in all his fiction is humor. Sometimes the amusing prose is sly and witty, but most usually it’s demotic, outright bawdy…The author’s literacy sits lightly throughout but is another small, cunning pleasure in a book full of delightful surprises.” Library Journal

“In nineteenth-century Sicily, a cornucopia of craziness surrounds the première of an opera buffo in a small music-loving town…Fans of Camilleri’s long-running Inspector Montalbano series will be familiar with his brand of lusty lunacy, carried here to a degree that rivals Boccaccio.” Kirkus Reviews

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