Excursion to Tindari (Italian: La gita a Tindari) is a 2000 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli.

Excursion to Tindari
Italian first edition cover
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
Original titleLa gita a Tindari
TranslatorStephen Sartarelli
LanguageItalian/Sicilian
SeriesInspector Salvo Montalbano, #5
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherSellerio (ITA)
Viking (US)
Macmillan/Picador (UK)
Publication date
18 February 2000
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
2005
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages304 pp
296 pp (Eng. trans.)
ISBN0-330-49302-7 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC62225211
Preceded byThe Voice of the Violin 
Followed byThe Scent of the Night 

It is the fifth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series. In 2006 it was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for best translated crime novel of the year.[1]

Plot summary

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The story takes place between Vigàta and picturesque site of Tindari, a promontory of historical and archaeological beauty. Montalbano is investigating the mysterious bond that unites a couple and an unrelated man in the same violent death. Thanks to his unique professional insight, and perhaps even more to his feelings as a sensitive man, Montalbano successfully concludes the investigation, moving inbetween the boundaries set by the world of tradition and that of modernity. In his fifties, examining his life and a future that seems to be saturated with senseless technology and hopeless inhumanity, with corruption and globalisation rendering everything shapeless, Montalbano feels out of place and lonely.

Adaptation

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It was first adapted for television by RAI with Luca Zingaretti in the TV series Inspector Montalbano. The episode was aired on 9 May 2001.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "The CWA International Dagger". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  2. ^ La gita a Tindari (2001) at IMDb