Angelica's Smile by Andrea CamilleriMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Another fine, hilarious, romp from the master of Sicilian crime novels, and his equally masterful translator Stephen Sartirelli.
In this outing, Montalbano needs to solve a series of burglaries. Along the way, he meets the beautiful Angelica, who reminds the inspector of his own teenaged fantasies of the Angelica of Orlando Furioso. Consequently, Camirelli peppers the story with quotes from Orlando Furioso, leaving poor Sartirelli to say "in certain cases I had to retranslate the excerpt because the Reynolds translation no longer contained the textual ambiguities that enabled Camilleri to apply the passage to his own story." I really don't pity the translator's job, but Sartirelli is always up to the challenge.
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