{"id":17751,"date":"2021-09-17T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2021-09-17T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:10:10","slug":"auntie-poldi-and-the-sicilian-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17751","title":{"rendered":"Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions<\/a><\/em> (2015\/2016) Mario Giordano translated by John Brownjohn (Auntie Poldi)<\/p>\n

\"Auntie<\/a>To clarify, this is a book published in Germany, about a Bavarian widow who retires to Sicily and is near her husband’s family, and is told by the widow’s nephew.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Italian is pretty good.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cApart from my accent, you mean? Thanks. I get by.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen did you learn it?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOh, over the years. My husband was a Sicilian.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this area?\u201d
\n…
\n\u201cIn a manner of speaking. He was born in Munich and only spoke Bavarian and Sicilian.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was confusing to sort out initially.<\/p>\n

Auntie Poldi–who was based upon the author’s actual aunt, is rather a character.<\/p>\n

Poldi\u2019s day always began with a revivifying Prosecco. Then came an espresso with a dash of brandy, followed by a slug of brandy without the espresso.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Auntie Poldi gets involved in a mystery when the young man who helps her with tasks around her house is murdered.<\/p>\n

Parts of it felt familiar from years of reading Andrea Camilleri<\/a>‘s Inspector Montalbano books.<\/p>\n

The gulf between Italian regional dialects is far greater than in most countries, and Sicilian is more than a dialect. It is a guttural, almost Arabic-sounding m\u00e9lange, the phonetic heritage of all the races that have ever occupied the island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mystery was interesting, and Auntie Poldi was fascinating (and if she hadn’t been based on a real person it’d be hard to believe she was real).<\/p>\n

I did however, have trouble figuring out the relationships between the characters in the beginning, and although the setting felt somewhat familiar the story-telling and way things were told was not.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t bad, just different from what I am used to.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Mariner Books
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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